A Link to the Past
Banned
The responses of "... but the children!" are completely off the mark. It's not a show for kids. Furthermore, kids will insult other kids regardless of where they get the insults from.
South Park is clearly satire, and the rationale for suggesting that it's anti-semitic would make a great deal of the world's best satire a hate crime.
Damn man I guess that's why they never sell Darth Vader merchandise huh
oh wait
I don't really think that the comparison is sound. Cartman isn't Darth Vader, or The Joker; hell, he's a worse person than Red Skull. None of these characters are defined, at least in modern times, on their hatred of people based on race, gender, sexuality, etc.
The episode with the Jewish alien TV producers did nothing but perpetuate stereotypes about Jews in Hollywood and in general. I want one of you Cartman-hating South Park fans to defend the portrayal in that episode. Or, better yet, the one with Kyle's cousin. Please. �� You can defend it like a lot of people do with comedy and say "They're jokes. Don't take it so seriously" or you can fess up and call it what it is- offensive and hurtful.
I think it is a problem yeah, of racially stereotypes being used in design rather than in action. I do not think that intention is there, but the outcome is that stereotypes are perpetuated. As an example, in all of the pictures I've seen, Caitlyn Jenner seems... a lot more exaggerated in her masculinity, and her face seems like it exaggerates features than a lot of other public figures.