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The Entire Library of South Park is Now Streaming on HBO Max (Except for the 5 Muhammad episodes)
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Tesseract
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
JFC. This kid went all out didn't he? On topic, it's a shame about losing cartoon wars. Anything taking the piss out of Family Guy is good by me.
Slings and Arrows
Banned
I can't. My overlord media masters said that digital was the future. Who wants to swap disks, they said. I agree. Now all my content is digital!
Thanks Media overlords!
Slings and Arrows
Banned
The idea of drawing Muhammed isn't an issue. The problem is drawing Allah, as just in Christianity, God is so great/super-duper/dogs-bollox that humans can't comprehend his might so creating a depiction of him is just a big no-no. Kind of like playing Witcher 3 on Switch. It's alright, but you aren't doing it justice unless it's on a top-of-the-line PC.
OT and somewhat strange, I watched 'Grey Dawn' and 'Casa Bonita', both on Season 7 and the Death Camp of Tolerance on Season 6, recently. In Casa Bonita, it shows the boys dressed in black, with black face-paint as they sneak in to town. Carman narrates that they snuck in to town, cleverly disguised as black people. Episode not pulled (thank god)
So we're back to square one on the oppression scale, where Muslims/Islam are at the top of the totem pole. I wonder what BLM think of that?
Slings and Arrows
Banned
Violent response to any drawing or non-physical act? Never acceptable
Tesseract
Banned
Soodanim
Gold Member
I forgot that South Park was one of the original modern shows to have censorship and removal of this kind. It was the wrong decision then, and now other shows that aren't doing anything wrong are getting content pulled for it. I've just switched my Community re-watched over to Amazon because they actually have Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, one of the best episodes, still up. Netflix and Hulu took it down because one character paints himself as a dark elf.
There's nothing wrong with what Community did or what Scrubs did with their episodes while I'm on the subject, because that was the joke. Calling out blackface for what it is in a comedic way. Networks and showrunners pulling episodes are saying that these things are making the given minority the subject of the joke, which is false. In Scrubs, when JD and Turk go to a black fraternity party in black and white face respectively, the joke is that blackface is a bad idea. The entire joke is based around that. I've YouTubed one The Office (US) scene (Schwarte Piet) and again, the joke is how fucking offensive it is and the stupidity and social ineptitude of the characters that enable it are when they do it.
I have heard other shows like 30 Rock that had episodes pulled were more egregious and the some stuff was right to be taken down, but I've not seen those so I can't comment. Because it's so easy for people to miss any subtlety or read between the lines in situations like these, I'll point out that I'm not defending all pulled episodes or scenes from all shows, and I'm not saying because White Chicks did it it's allowed wholesale the other way round. I'm saying that the things I've seen strike me as cases of people having good intentions but flawed execution.
There's nothing wrong with what Community did or what Scrubs did with their episodes while I'm on the subject, because that was the joke. Calling out blackface for what it is in a comedic way. Networks and showrunners pulling episodes are saying that these things are making the given minority the subject of the joke, which is false. In Scrubs, when JD and Turk go to a black fraternity party in black and white face respectively, the joke is that blackface is a bad idea. The entire joke is based around that. I've YouTubed one The Office (US) scene (Schwarte Piet) and again, the joke is how fucking offensive it is and the stupidity and social ineptitude of the characters that enable it are when they do it.
I have heard other shows like 30 Rock that had episodes pulled were more egregious and the some stuff was right to be taken down, but I've not seen those so I can't comment. Because it's so easy for people to miss any subtlety or read between the lines in situations like these, I'll point out that I'm not defending all pulled episodes or scenes from all shows, and I'm not saying because White Chicks did it it's allowed wholesale the other way round. I'm saying that the things I've seen strike me as cases of people having good intentions but flawed execution.