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Yeah, that makes no sense either.
There is no correlation between the two issues except for someone who is looking for them. The dude in the picture (who was smiling) was black! These people must hate black people! Spielberg is Jewish! This episode is antisemitic! I don't even think there was a single jew joke in the whole epsiode. Someone should sue the guy from ADL for something equally ridiculous.
The lack of an outcry from Chinese people (Who were heavily satired) is funny, they don't seem to take offense to this, perhaps they understand a joke? I guess the Lucas/Spielburg team didn't want bad publicity for their lackluster film so close to the release date. Well I saw the film, it was lackluster, but I'm still going to buy it. I mean it's Indiana Jones for cripes sake! I also saw the South Park episode and found it hilarious. Yeah I can see how they were right, poor Indy was raped for profit, but it wont deter my purchasing of the film.
As for the ADL getting upset, honestly, this episode shouldn't be the one that causes them to freak out. There are much worse episodes that are anti-semtic out there.
And this just feeds this vicious cycle of creating precedents and indulging in self-censorship because of the fear that somewhere, somehow, three amish people will be offended by a joke about a toaster oven or whatever...!
Inch by inch, speech in the media is becoming less and less free.
I believe Comedy Central DID reair the episode the night following it's premiere, (Wednesday, right?). I remember catching it that first night, telling everybody at work about it the next day, getting home late and catching it again. I still laughed and cringed as much as I did the night before.
About the case in general, all kinds of people are getting all sorts of butt-hurt over everything. It's difficult to tell people to take a joke, but you can't - not in a day and age where you can't poke a little fun at Mohammed because you're risking 9/11 times 1,000.
I'm a white, christian man and I always thought how Jesus was portrayed was hilarity, and his roles on the show were great - especially the episode where he literally comes out guns blazing and gets shot while trying to rescue Santa.
These bored assholes need to take some Xanax or get a blow job - at least from somebody else. Those of us who appreciate South Park's humor and movies that use the word "retard" are tired of cradling your balls.
So what, should we take 'Memento' off shelves cuz it might portray anterograde amnesia wrong? Should Harry Potter be black-listed cuz it possibly misportrays adolescents with magic powers? SHOULD POWER RANGERS DISAPPEAR INTO THE SANDS OF TIME BECAUSE MEGAZORDS ARE MISREPRESENTED AS GENDERLESS?!
You're right. They did re-air the episode after its premiere. It was after I read this article (Monday this week) that the Future Self episode ran in place of The China Problem, which was schedule according to my cable provider. It could have been a mistake, but I like to stir up trouble whenever I can.
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I was watching the Conan O Brian show, a few weeks ago Conan started to tell a joke. Out of nowhere the NBC LA News broke into the show....
The "news woman" said that Conan was about to tell a train wreck joke, and that NBC would rejoin the broadcast when he was done.... (She went on to do a weather report). La laaa laaaaaa.
LA had just seen the worst train wreck a few days earlier, but to step on a joke that was told on the East Coast about trains wrecking ??? Wtf ppl.
The media has nothing to do with freedom of speech.... The media is corrupt.
I was more offended by that, then some cartoons raping a cartoon Indiana Jones.
Then you and the South Park guys have a lot in common. Granted, I'm certain that Parker and Stone only want to speak for the majority of people (or even the minority) and visually depict what it is that pisses off/annoys/confounds the average individual, they're probably well aware that in their quest, they push the metaphorical envelope.
Props, I say. Props to those guys for doing what needed to be done. Yeah, they stir up a little trouble and consequently get their show banned in some countries, but hey - that's show biz.