Matt Stone and Trey Parker on liberals and conservatives, and emotive neutrality
Many on the left love when the South Park creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, bash, apparently, on the sacred icons of conservatives.
Conservatives try to claim the show because some liberals decry the show at times, but the conservatives love the free speech advocacy of the show. The show’s creators have been lauded by much of the media world.
They have been pilloried as well. But the defining takeaway is the ambiguity of their show. Do not expect a message from the show, that does not seem like the intent of the show.
If I had any interpretation, it would be Stone and Parker, as good and long-term friends, asking one another, “What makes you laugh?” As it turns out, this can help see the heart and soul of the show, and the comedy’s source as well.
It amounts to not truly caring about offense but about the funny, about the laugh, for each of them. It makes sense of them not liking conservatives but not really liking liberals.
As they have said, unequivocally, that liberals piss them off the most. Two guys having fun. That’s it. Take it from Stone in 2005, “I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.”
It is that sort of non-android response to the media landscape of hyperbole found in Hollywood that is so refreshing, and continues to be, because of the ordinary human response while remaining neutral.
No one should claim the show, but many do — and the duo have real, human responses about that. I love that about them.
Let them have their fun, we will all be better for it, have a laugh.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen founded In-Sight Publishing and In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal.
