Everyone talks about their change in stance towards global warming but almost nobody talks about their change towards addiction. In “Bloody Mary” they were all like “oh addiction is not really a disease, it’s just something you can overcome with discipline” and then several seasons later in “Freemium isn’t Free” they’re like “yeah turns out addiction is a hereditary problem that companies take advantage of to make millions.”
@@FrancisR420 no they were taking about alcoholism in general because when the pope declared that the Virgin Mary statue was not performing miracles several of the AA members (which Stan previously called a cult) also started drinking with Randy
I can see how you took that as the final point made by "Freemium isn't Free," but I interpret it as companies purposely trying to take advantage of people psychologically to make them into "whales," otherwise known as the heavy reliable spenders. They applied it to both alcoholics and game addicts.
@@Doctor4077 ok, it's so hard to tell with them I thought that the Tobacco Company episode was ironic cuz tobacco companies literally could give a s*** about killing kids, so its funny if the people trying to stop tobacco companys are worse, just straight up murder a kid, but according to their commentary that's what they actually think of people who are against smoking and smoking companies and the act of smoking, they think everybody knows the risks and are okay with them that tobacco companies never Target children and that people who are against public smoking would murder a child, and that Rob Reiner's addiction to food is worse than a cigarette addiction despite the fact it doesn't affect anyone else because they don't believe in secondhand smoke. It completely disillusioned me.
I love South Park and agree with many of their opinions. I was surprised they couldn’t grasp climate change at the time. But it does show you how much influence an uninformed/self-righteous person can have on the opinion forming process of the masses. And I know that because i learned it from the South Park guys in smarter episodes.
South Parks stance on climate change is a great reminder that opinions aren't linear, and the way we view things will inevitably change over time. Its important to recognize when that happens. Good on South Park for owning up to that, and good on Al Gore for being such a good sport through it all.
Even though Al Gore is right about climate change, this does not excuse his willingness to sacrifice the boys to glorify himself to the masses. So I wouldn’t be surprised if in a future ManBearPig-centered episode, they make this shocking revelation that Al was just doing all that crap for himself all along. But that’s just my thoughts on how Trey and Matt could subvert viewer expectations, and I am, of course, talking strictly about his SP self, and NOT the real person.
Honestly, people think South Park is this unbiased, “we make fun of everyone” show but they really don’t do it equally. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been watching South Park for a while now but people should realize that it isn’t perfect as they aren’t “fair” to everyone.
@@wackyworkbench Their consistent effort to be as transparent as possible is enough though. Of course it isn't perfect, they're human beings with their own embedded biases and whatnot. What, would you be more satisfied if a computer program wrote the jokes and algorithmically distributed the insults across parties? Use your brain dude
@@jessestrobel2 I’m not criticizing South Park, I’m criticizing the public perception of the show being unbiased and neutral, when CLEARLY they aren’t. Once again, they make fun of everyone but they don’t make fun of everyone equally.
As someone not from the US, I never even made the connection between Man Bear Pig and 'Global Warming', I just assumed the joke was social commentary on a failed political figure
@@ducklord6922 I was a grown-ass man when I saw it and I didn't know it meant the creators didn't think climate change was real. I just thought they were making fun of Al Gore specifically
A full season apology "tour" would be amazing. Every episode tackling a subject that Matt and Trey regretted their stance on. The end of the season could end with the residents of South Park realizing that maybe we're wrong sometimes and that's ok because we're living in the present, not the future.
Can I just say that Jesus being in Imaginationland is weird when he's also a regular character? I mean I get what they were trying to say but they could have done more to make him different from the show's regular Jesus, maybe make him look more stylized and act like Republican Jesus compared to how the in-show character is.
It would be interesting if he adopted more culturally typical Christian tones. It sounds like he's basically playing Matt Stone now! Either way I still find the character pretty funny when he's just playing the every man. With all the same insecurities as the rest of us. What about those farmers in Belarus
@@michaelcorcoran8768 That's actually why I like Father Maxie. He's a priest who genuinely believes in practicing what the bible preaches, and fights to defend the good in the bible.
I'd say that its actually a stroke of genius that the border between imaginationland and the "real world" is so ill defined. South park is nothing if not a commentary on how deeply subjective the realities we all experience are, and it often illustrates imaginary things having real world consequences in a very direct and literal way. Rather than seeing it as Jesus is or isn't imaginary, their take seems to be that Jesus is in a superposition of both states, which is literally true. Tons of people have previously believed in Jesus and now think it's a fantasy, while tons of people currently believe in Jesus. Furthermore, Jesus' existence in both the real and the imaginary is a sort of commentary on the whole premise of omnipotence and omniscience that most religious people believe their deity possesses. After all, if Jesus does exist and is truly and completely omnipotent, why wouldn't Jesus ALSO be in imaginationland? If Jesus wasn't there, wouldn't that represent some part of the universe beyond the reach of God's infinite grasp?
Always baffled me they took the stance in the first place. While politically I don't agree with quite a bit of their ideas, they always seen to try justify them rationally and logically. Denying climate change even in the mid 2000's seemed like utter stupidity from them.
I didn't know the episode was making fun of climate change (I was a kid and just thought they were only making fun of Al Gore) but now that I know it's kind of amazing that of all the issues these guys seemed to have an opinion on, them making fun of climate change feels out of character for these guys. I guess anyone can think that way, but it's just weird comparing it to their other stances on other things
Well a lot of people didn’t in believe in climate change even at that point. If anything it’s more mature that they realized they were wrong and not continue to deny and make fun of it.
Al Gore's claims back then haven't exactly aged well. Climate alarmism is still deserving of plenty of scrutiny. If there's something to be said for the possibility of using climate change to push agendas that may or may not be necessary, or may or may not have alternatives, or may or may not make reasonable assumptions about humanity's ability to even do anything/enough about it, it's unlikely that South Park's format would be able to summon the necessary nuance to address it.
See the problem with Matt and Trey is (by their own admission) they’d rather attack the preachy liberal view than the cook republican view. It’s the same thing with their stances on smoking and alcohol in the past. They’re good at approaching cultural issues but not great at political issues (which is why a lot of people have issue with the later seasons but that’s just my opinion)
I really liked your take on South Park's supposed "centrist" ideals. I was getting sick of people saying South Park is bad satire because its "centrist". Al Gore and Manbearpig are still some of the funniest and iconic stuff from the show. But the message behind the episode was rather dated. I really appreciated that Matt and Trey did this when they could've easily ignored their bad take on climate change. Also as far as I can tell, they readdressed the issue without being specifically called out for it. Which to me showed they did for genuine reasons.
People change as time passes and while they may have made some bad takes like 10+ years ago, certainly doesn't mean they still stand by them now, and it was really cool that Matt and Trey made an episode acknowledging one of them.
@@DoctorLazers taking the piss out of various ideologies and political positions does not make them centrists it just allows for better comedy because there are more targets to take the piss out of, the goal of the show isn’t to show the creators political position or to push political messages that they align with and it’s clear that was never their intention, it’s just a goofy show that makes fun of everything in entertaining and humorous ways, it’s not that deep, expecting a show like South Park where the majority of the jokes are crude disgusting poop humor to be influencing public perception by pushing certain political views just makes no sense, it’s a comedy show, not meant to be taken seriously or have any profound message
@@DoctorLazers They weren't. Did you see their commentary on transgenders? Is that centrist? What about how they trashed PCness for an entire season? Or the Washington Redskins name drama? South Park were centrist on some issues, but they clearly took a side on a lot of things too.
@@blackanimelover18 Yeah, 20 years into their run. And for every episode that is firm on anything, there are 10 that say, "Having an opinion or being passionate about anything is stupid.
I swear South Park is like one big diary, considering that the show creators wrote every single episode base on what is/was current. On a side note, when the documentary "Framing Britney Spears came out. it immediately remained me of that South Park episode :Britney's New Look" from 2008.
@@tateoctober814 true. I try to explain to people that Southpark isn't a show that takes sides, its sees issues on a very surface level and pokes fun at them.
Lol same, but I think it’s more because I’m older and able to understand the political references and jokes. It makes light of events that are extremely stressful and very real without completely disregarding the severity of them. It’s hard to do but they do it great.
Yeah, South Park isn't saying "the middle ground is always the answer", it is saying that all people can become ridiculous, and no idological belief prevents you from having that human flaw.
I still think the original episode stands cause while "Manbearpig" is real, Al Gore himself was the main point of comedy, the way he portrayed himself was pretty crazy even irl
That’s my thoughts. I don’t care if manbearpig was real or not, it’s Al Gore that I think is the main point. What a-lot Al Gore said in The Inconvenient Truth was wrong since it never happened, happened a lot later, or was reversed. I find Al Gore to be a power hungry egotistical man (based on what I’ve seen of him) who I don’t think they should’ve apologized to. Yeah you can have manbearpig exist but still make fun of Gore. Maybe have manbearpig still a massive threat while not like what Al Gore said.
I think Trey Parker was influenced a little bit from when he worked with Prager in the earliest days. He was their first real benefactor. Those early South Park episodes also had some pro corporate stuff like in the tweeks coffee. I don't think he would write that episode today
@@josephwilliams1251 Not surprised. It's no secret that Matt and Trey were more conservative libertarians in the earlier days. At least when it came to economics and stuff like that.
I am not too surprised. While the hardcore Christians didn't like the show, according to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, they both had the same goal of making sure it was only airing really late at night.
I love that they grew and changed and didn't just decide "Oh well, what's done is done." They made sure to show what they were apologizing for, and it clearly means a lot to one of the people they're apologizing to.
I remember you talking about making this video in the with apologies to Billy Baldwin cartoons that curse episode! So glad you actually made it since I was really looking forward to this! Thank you Johnny!
Really appreciated your thoughts on this, man. I feel like South Park is always the first series that people jump to criticize because it's had the reputation of being this obnoxiously crude show since it first aired, as well as having these kinds of outdated views that are indicative of the time some of their episodes came out. There are a lot of shows that have outdated subject matter that just seems in poor taste nowadays, like Friends or How I Met Your Mother, but they seem to get more of a pass by people for being less crude or mean-spirited in comparison. And using that same logic, I think those moments can still be viewed as harmful given how casual the comedy would be. South Park always takes the absurdist route and I love it for that, but people seem to take it a bit too seriously sometimes and just miss the point.
I think the argument is that South Park has contributed to corrosive politics. Matt and Trey can only do so much apologizing, but they way they amplified climate-change denialism can never truly be forgiven.
@@JoshuaSolomon No, the traitors that knowingly pushed the global warming scam can never be forgiven for causing global child abuse, poverty, starvation and genocide. Go look at the deaths Obama and Biden caused switching 6 % of our food crops to biofuel. Search : "Biofuel Caused Food Crisis."
@@ellie8674 Since when has SP "hated on change?" The show has changed a lot throughout it's run time, especially the Tegridy Farms and President Garrison eras. Also, if you hate something, then you're not apathetic. 🙄 Somebody needs to get a dictionary.
One thing about the “apology” episode I love is that while it is absolutely a clear declaration of their recognition of the issue, I still feel like they rib Al Gore for some of the same things they did before ( ie that he might be injecting himself into the fray just as much as the issue ).
While I do believe climate change is real I think Gore should still be mocked because in the movie once you start setting year targets of something being underwater for example people can poke holes in your theory (If that makes any sense). I think are doomed with climate change no matter what we do because of population growth. This planet cannot sustain it's self with 10 Billion people on it
Though I agree with you, blocking those who disagree only divides people more and drives those people only further into their own beliefs, promote discussion not hate.
But there is a lot we can still do about climate change, the idea that its "too late" is a falsehood perpetuated by capitalists so they can keep destroying the planet. Dont give in to ecofascist propaganda, we can still save the planet.
@@gx9183 I think they mean, I hope they mean at least, that the same people who are contributing the most to GW, the uber-rich corporation folks who run the factories that pollute the air the most, are the same people who can do the most to stop/reverse GW. Everyday citizens can only do so much to help, because we don't contribute nearly as much damage as corporations. Putting recycling bins out on our curbs every week ain't gonna do much.
I would love someone to do a whole breakdown of South Park's take on trans topics because my GOD do they make some messed up choices. That could be a whole review video in itself - I'm a South Park fan but goddamn dude.
Wow sorry I responded to this comment earlier with something that was DEFINITELY intended to go under a DIFFERENT comment, apologies to anyone who saw it, a genuine mistake.
but most of all it is absolutly irresponsible to threaten trans people's health like that like fuck the intellectual stuff what it actually created is a rabid conservative republican party who put genitalinspectors into sportsclasses and bans on life saving healthcare treatments and an increase in hatecrimes which are protected by panic defense laws
It really really pisses me off that many of the Manbearpig deniers are old enough that they won’t have to endure the realities of manbearpig like me and my peers will. It’s convenient to deny a Manbearpig that you won’t have to experience, but Manbearpig is just gonna grow bigger and bigger and bigger over time
so happy someone finally starting doing fan south park analysis videos, i couldnt believe how very few there were for so long! i even thought to myself that i should start uploading videos concerning south park, i could give ya some ideas if you'd like! One that would be really interesting would be a video studying cartman and butters' relationship and how they grew as characters throughout the show. It's really funny because cartman starts as the bully with butters being submissive, but through cartman's exploits and other random events that happen to butters, i do believe that they even switch dispositions later on in the show to some extent. several episodes also show cartman's road to submissiveness, specifically the "psst" episode with the dog trainer, Cartman loses a part of himself that doesn't come back for the most part. Anyways, great job making these videos, much love botha!
While it is nice that they apologized, the damage the show single handedly did to denounce global warming has really snowballed (lol) to the point where even though they released an episode saying the issue is real, the people who watched the original episode will just denounce the new episodes as leftist garbage, and South Park getting “pozzed out the ass.” Just some thought as to how dangerous centrist views can be down the road.
@@11magic1man11 Na that’s a cop out, South Park isn’t the same as Tom and Jerry and reducing the issue down to “well people shouldn’t base their opinions on /cartoons/“ isn’t healthy discourse. Not to mention that the show begs for people to form opinions around it, and blaming the people who watch it passes the buck and allows haphazard writing to be applied to the show further.
@@Elfinlocksable how do they beg people to follow what they show? I don't know a single person who denies climate change because a show that had a presidential election between a literal shit sandwich or a giant douche told them to. I most definitely can blame the person for basing their opinions on a show like southpark. The bigger problem is when a show can't make fun of anyone without others taking it too seriously. It's a cartoon. It's not meant to be taken seriously and anyone who does is weak minded and should be taught better.
That comment you made about how you rethink what you said in your videos is so freaking relatable. I've scrapped so many projects and even the ones I have finished I'm just like "I could have done better :/" I loved this video's message!
I had a strange dream not too long ago that I had used ritual necromancy to bring about ManBearPig...yet it's been years since I've even watched South Park. I was taken back by how vivid it was, because I started the dream off by dismembering every part I'd need to use for the ritual-- and it ended in the dismemberment of most of my friends ManBearPig is real, he haunts my dreams, and it's apparently all my fault.
If you’ve been paying attention to the world at all in the past couple of years you’d know that isn’t true. The rise of disinformation on the internet is a plague
@@Johnny2Cellos misinformation can be dangerous but it's still free speech. Also dont you find it ironic that a video about someone changing their mind is not open to changing the minds of others.
Lol, it's not feasible or reasonable for me to debate every climate denier in my comments, it's definitely more effective to cut off the spread of disinformation. There is a time and place for that kind of debate, the comment section of a South Park video ain't it
I think the Pandemic Special really showed how Matt And Trey are able to use their platform for good! Stan’s desire for normalcy is relatives to many viewers who just miss the way things used to be and also poking fun at how Trump handled Covid by having him literally set fire to the “cure” was genius! As someone whose views changed drastically this year I can’t wait to see what else they do
I look at it this way, I don't think the media and celebrities should've made it sound like Trump was some evil villain during his Presidency, he's just another corrupt idiot like the rest of the people in our rich political class in my eyes, but Garrison burning the scientist and pangolin to death at the end of "The Pandemic Special" and then having the nerve to tell everybody to go out and vote was funny as fuck. And then he goes back to teaching in "South ParQ Vaccination Special" like nothing happened lol.
Not a climate change denier or sceptic. But when you say “I’ll block you” in the video. Its rather aggressive and comes off as weak. Sours the video a bit...
I love South Park but I think Matt and Trey have done a lot of damage with their "all positions are absurd" cynicism. When you put that out into the world for years, you can't ever take it back once you think again on an issue. They were wrong about climate change, they acknowledged it, but the damage was done. They were wrong about addiction, they acknowledged it, but the damage was done. They were wrong about trans issues, they acknowledged it, but the damage was done. A lot of viewers have already gone "Yeah, right on!" with their bad takes and now they won't reconsider. I hope someday Matt and Trey grow up a bit more and realize that their cynical "I'm above it all because caring is stupid" outlook is really just immature, irresponsible, and dumb.
4:28 I mean ya but both Jesus and Santa are also in imagination land despite both being very real in the world of Southpark I wouldn’t put too much stock into that besides being a call back
Ya know i never knew manbearpig was supposed to represent climate change. Now thinking back on the episodes it makes sense and is absolutely brilliant.
One of my favorite vids of yours yet! I don't watch a lot of adult cartoons, but I've watched a TON of South Park, a childhood favorite of mine and my brothers, and watching it grow and change through the years, and do things like this, is just so interesting. Like the switch to more serialized as opposed to episodic format in season, what was it, 19? A bold choice and one that I definitely think payed off.
I don’t always love watching the evolution of different shows, but the nearly 24 years of South Park has definitely been one of the better evolutions IMO
You gotta do a video on the episode with bojack kills, they way the ending gives foreshadowing on Diana's decision to leave bojack to be happy in Chicago
Guess what? In 1789 A.D. the climate changed exactly like in the last 15 years, and there was no human-related CO² emission, so...coincidences DO exist, you malthusians!
The Earth was also significantly hotter far in the past. There are natural events where gasses spew forth from beneath the crust in levels far more drastic than anything produced by humans. The 'science' is wrong... not surprisingly. We're still pretty much in our infancy when it comes to understanding our world. I'm all for limiting our impact in realistic ways and trying to live more in harmony with the Earth, but people are looking in the wrong directions.
@@majorpwner241 Exactly, there are people out here who "need" to feel useful in case on an apocalypse which is not in sight, at least not climatically (obviously, from wars it is indeed, but the same people advocating against "climate change" are pushing for propelling the wars towards full blown escalation regardless of contradicting themselves)
i always took the Manbearpig thing to be more a knock on Gore being such a hardcore grifter and hypocrite on the subject and not so much flat-out saying climate change in and of itself wasn't real. but i do agree with the overall message that people and their opinions can and do change, and if we can't as a society accept an actual apology then what the hell is the point of trying to coexist?
I also find it telling that Al Gore appeared on Futurama a few times. His delivery of "ONE GALLON OF GAS" is a quote that pops into my head whenever climate change or petrol prices are mentioned.
It's exactly South Park's specific flavour of apathetic centrism which lead to the original episode. They saw somebody claiming that the status quo was unsustainable and that radical action had to be taken to avert disaster; an extreme idea, and they defaulted to mockery rather than understanding. The change in stance only came after acknowledging climate change became the default position of most people, and climate denial became the new fringe idea.
eh, i would say climate change/global warming not being an issue was the centrist stance in the usa in 2006, it's just now that no real action against climate change has happened & exacerbated the effects of global warming that there's more people being actually affected by it so it can't be denied. although that hard proof comes from a lack of action that made it so we have less than a decade to fix it before it becoming irreversible. it just sucks that people had to start experiencing the effects of droughts & extreme weather patterns themselves before believing it's true. and i would also like to add that i agree, south park isn't why centrists politics are as fheg are but i don't doubt the money matt & trey got from south park made its way into some political fund raisers that went into ad campaigns & such. they do have poltical pull in many ways
People were saying we'd all be dead within a decade 20 years ago from climate change. Climate change is real but not as big of a deal as some make it. We should definitely do more to combat it because humans are speeding it along but it's also naturally occurring. We aren't going to stop it but we should also stop speeding it along. Nuclear is definitely the way to go tho.
The manbearpig episode is still really great when you just look at it at face value and ignore the commentary. I can see why people don't like it for the message, but it's a lot easier to not take seriously when they never directly mention global warming.
Yeah when I first watched that ep I didn’t think it was a metaphor bc I didn’t know much abt Al Gore aside from TV always seeming to portray him as a weirdo (also I first saw it in 2014 or 15)
now i'm wondering how the fight against GW is going. I saw a documentary saying that recycling plastic is basically ineffective because its so expensive so I'm guessing not well.
I'm going go make this very clear. *Climate change is very real and it absolutely has the serious potential to be a problem in the future.* However, many of the people who publically represent the climate change movement *REALLY* don't help improve how people view there activism and the problems we can/will face I'm the future.
I NEVER realized the first Al Gore episode was denying global warming. It seems so obvious now that you pointed it out though. When I first saw the episode I already believed in global warming at the time, so I just took the episode as saying Man-Bear-Pig was actually real (at least in the South Park universe) but people just don't see how that's a serious issue (like some do in our universe about global warming.)
Yeah, South Park does brilliant commentary, but they can be just as wrong about issues as you and me. What at the moment sticks out to me is their episode about Trans-Sports which is very misguided, misinformed and build on a lot of lies transphobes keep making up. And I know how it feels to be in that position, because I was just as misguided as they where when that episode came out.
Transphobia has been consistent throughout South park. In the episode where Mr garrison transitions they have him regret it and state that changing how you look doesn't change what you are. Also the Trans athlete episode, but in the 3nd of that they have the school's girls beat the athlete at board games
@@patrickpittman538 To be entirely fair, I think they've evolved from that line of thinking if nothing else. After all, in "the Cissy" Wendy calls out Cartman for essentially using trans people to get special bathroom privileges and says something like "there's people actually struggling with their gender identity and here you are doing this" if I recall, and obviously she's being portrayed as a voice of reason. And at the end, the message seems to be that people should be able to use the bathroom they're most comfortable with. (It's been a few years since I've seen it though) I think the trans sports stance comes from a result of people who are trying to dispel the myths about it are kinda being talked over by people in power, thus common people aren't really hearing it unfortunately, and this just comes from a lack of understanding. Perhaps when things get better for trans athletes and correct information about it is more widely known, Matt and Trey will change their minds.
@@Tendo641 That's exactly what I'm thinking too. And also what happened to me when it came to this issue. I also want to point out that Garrison is not a reliable point of view Character. Garrison is all over the place and I don't think they ever intended for him to represent anyone or even their own opinion. He went from Homophobe to Gay Man to Woman to Gay Woman to Man again to Trump to apparently now God like or whatever. This is similar to Cartman who often represents just the worst kind of person in any scenario often not even having an equivalent in the real world.
Yeah this was disappointing to me given Cissy and some things from the game which made me feel like they'd progressed even if it was tongue-in-cheek. It wasn't even their opinion so much as that they spent the episode arguing with a strawman because transgender athletes in championship leagues are medically gatekept a lot, particularly trans women, based on how doctors and scientists currently consider hormone treatment to have affected the athlete, to the point where she should be at a disadvantage to any women with natural genetic advantages or high testosterone levels in general. The scenario they were describing just doesn't exist. And the bizarre thing was at the end the "PC babies" agreed with them and so... They were arguing with themselves and hadn't seen anybody really disagreeing with them? Like yeah not many people disagree on the issue because it's an issue you made up, but you can't even represent that there's an argument to be had so why spend an episode dunking on trans athletes at all? It's really weird. There are people who feel that self ID should be enough for sports, particularly outside of major leagues and many advocates for non gendered sports. There's advantages and disadvantages to those positions and if they'd really wanted to display some kind of existing argument they could have. But it was just a total mess and really undid the work they'd done in my eyes. At least back when they were trying to be weird and offensive it's easy to dismiss. It's more harmful when they try to do a more serious episode with a political opinion and screw around with people's lives
@@laurellee1435 I gotta defend them a little. The problem is (and I have been in that position before) that through media and even simple stuff like memes there are mostly lies shared about trans athletes. Such as transmen being forced to wrestle against women, and made to look like they are transwomen wrestling other women and being better because of it. Then there are things like "man identifies as a woman for 5 seconds and breaks female lifting record" which of course is bullshit. But there is a lot of stuff like that you can see daily in your online life without ever figuring out the truth behind those claims simply because everyone lives in this online bubble where the algorithm of every website keeps showing them the things they already have decided to agree with. Even when I stopped being transphobic, I was still largely against trans-athletes before I finally figured out why the things I thought I knew where wrong. This episode actually helped me educate, because I saw Samantha Lux reaction to it. And I'm pretty sure they are in that exact same bubble.
That's one of the greatest things I love about the creators of South Park. They have learned and grown therefore reflected that in their work. Which is refreshing. Good for them.
The sad thing is when someone DOESN'T change their stance on something despite new facts and evidence, and just ignore the new evidence and continue in their outdated beliefs.
South Park doesn’t even hold centrist views on everything. Since the beginning, the characters have been big advocates of homosexuality and have allows stressed that. I hate that it’s always labeled as being apathetic about every modern societal issue
Now we have to remember to be accepting when the episode comes out in a few years about companies profiting off of ManBearPig histeria and often causing more harm than good.
Interesting Video. Honestly I always thought that the argument of Manbearpig was we can't use scare tactics when we talk about these issues because it does create deniers which in turn makes things worse. However I guess I was wrong about that and t hey were saying it was fake. Huh, live and learn.
Im 25 now and when I look back at all the bad takes I had since highschool I'm shook. People change and they change their minds and its cool to see that change reflected in art. It would've been so easy for them just to apologize publicly and that's that. But they decided to make a episode about it. It's smart and it honestly means a lot more then them just saying they changed their mind on something.
This. Also people have weird assumption that everything is playing with the absolutes. When I was dumb teenager I was super "Anti sjw right winger" I grew out of it. But did I become "screaming SJW?". No. I still condemn huge portion of that BS. But I don't no longer accept and believe every piece of bullcrap that comes from the "Anti-SJWs".
Accepting that people can change over time and develop new opinions feels so underrated these days. Everyone just digs up shit from 100 years ago all the time and acts like people can't have personal growth.
The times southpark picks a side is overshadowed by all the times they just mock both sides, so I think the criticism that they don't pick sides is fair criticism. I don't care if that they don't pick a side, I like the show as is.
As a non-american kid who only knew who Al Gore was through South Park I didn't realize manbearpig was a stand-in for climate change back then. I just thought the whole premise of a former vice-president of the United States getting on a bunch of small town grade schooler's case because of a silly delusion was hilarious.
Like when Al claimed all the snow in Mt. Kilimanjaro would disappear by 2015 and the opposite happened or when the world would end in 2016. Yeah, I would totally apologize to an oil baron like that.
The predicted models for "global warming" didn't come true so they had to shift the goalpost to the all encompassing, nebulous term of "climate change". Which of course the climate is changing, just like it has done since the beginning of the earth. But wait, the government can totally solve the problem if you just give up your standard of living and give them trillions of dollars!!!
@@googletubesucks George h.w. Bush call it climate change back in the 80s.... “Global warming” refers to the rise in global temperatures due mainly to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. “Climate change” refers to the increasing changes in the measures of climate over a long period of time - including precipitation, temperature, and wind patterns.
