| gnidrologs ( @ 2025-06-17 20:01:00 |
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One thing I expected Sam to talk about (but he didn't) is how it always misses what it aims for, and sends it audience the opposite message on accident.
Cartman in South Park is supposed to be the personification of all the "bad" things the creators wanted to satirize. Antisemitic, racist, anti-hippie (he hates 60s counterculture boomer heroes? oh my pearls!), misogynistic, greedy, etc. Yet Cartman was by far the most popular character in the show for years.
Borat's "antisemitism" is a spoof of "backwards" rural Europeans and their supposed suspicion of enlightened cosmopolitan (Brazilians), yet people found Borat's antisemitism endearing.
(Brazilian) humor tries to use mockery to elevate Brazilians above non-Brazilians, but it usually accidentally does the opposite.
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