<story><title>Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars</title><url>https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/6/24/21301245/south-park-2000-oscars-blame-canada-controversy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>&amp;quot;Basically, for every stance they’ve gotten right—like this past season when they refused to back down to China—there’s another one that’s aged like a bowl of Cheesy Poofs left out in the rain.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s never felt to me like South Park was trying to be right about anything. I think of them more as a court jester, they play a role where they mock everything, all the time. The mocking is the point. Getting it right is irrelevant (my take, anyway).&lt;p&gt;When you mock everything, though, you will naturally convince a lot of people that everything is equally worth mocking (which may necessitate, say, readdressing climate change).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namdnay</author><text>Somebody far more eloquent than I am summarized the problem with this attitude: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;circlebroke&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;3tsd5o&amp;#x2F;comment&amp;#x2F;cx8xc4o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;circlebroke&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;3tsd5o&amp;#x2F;comment...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;By poking fun at everyone who tries to do anything, you end up defending the status quo</text></comment>
<story><title>Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars</title><url>https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/6/24/21301245/south-park-2000-oscars-blame-canada-controversy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>&amp;quot;Basically, for every stance they’ve gotten right—like this past season when they refused to back down to China—there’s another one that’s aged like a bowl of Cheesy Poofs left out in the rain.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s never felt to me like South Park was trying to be right about anything. I think of them more as a court jester, they play a role where they mock everything, all the time. The mocking is the point. Getting it right is irrelevant (my take, anyway).&lt;p&gt;When you mock everything, though, you will naturally convince a lot of people that everything is equally worth mocking (which may necessitate, say, readdressing climate change).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_jal</author><text>The ritual &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve learned something today...&amp;quot; bit is usually funny and meta, but there&amp;#x27;s clearly a consistent worldview behind the sentiments in the sum up. They aren&amp;#x27;t very subtle about it.</text></comment>