Previously, pizzagaters have noted Southpark's frequent references to institutionalized elite pedophilia.
Examples:
A. Red Hot Catholic Love
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bctivboqvKo
B. Super Adventure Club
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWy_Qf8gfko
C. Cartman Joins Nambla: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartman_Joins_NAMBLA
D. Pedophile Panic:
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/qu8pqi/pedophile-panic
E. Pedophile Photographer (note the evil clown at the end):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovSqCBYTte0
In the past 2 months, there has been a marked increase in lawsuits, published lists, and media articles documenting known pedophile priests and institutional complicity in sheltering these abusers from public attention and legal justice.
Crudely commenting on this trend Southpark devoted a 2 minute and 13 second segment to Catholic Parishioners heckling a Priest during a Sunday service with jokes about the sexual abuse of young boys.
https://youtu.be/qwlbp1jZAxs
It's part of a larger episode about the Catholic Church and how the bishops intentionally shuffle pedophile priests.
“A Boy and a Priest” centered around the friendship between Butters and Father Maxi, the local South Park priest who is being ridiculed by the townspeople over the Catholic Church’s history of sex abuse. Father Maxi’s relationship with Butters does his reputation no favors and prompts the Denver Archdiocese to send a cleanup crew of ordained church officials to South Park in order to remove any traces of child molestation.
https://tv.avclub.com/south-park-revisits-the-catholic-churchs-scandals-in-an-1829512173
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a23609692/catholic-league-south-park-priest-pedophilia-response/
In response, the Catholic League—a religious advocacy group—has released a baffling statement about the episode, calling the South Park creators "cowards." As a statement from the organization's president Bill Donohue reads:
The October 3rd episode of “South Park,” titled “A Boy and a Priest,” portrayed molesting priests as pedophiles. This is factually inaccurate: almost all the molesters—8 in 10—have been homosexuals. Therefore, the cartoon-victim characters should have been depicted as adolescents, not kids. In Hollywood, the creators of “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are seen as courageous. They are really cowards. It takes courage to tell the truth.
So what does the community think? Is this speaking truth to power? Or is it a large media empire normalizing abuse?
Edit:
Comedy Central is an American pay television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks
Nickelodeon is also owned by Viacom. Dan Schneider, an alleged sexual abuser, was employed by Nickelodeon for decades. Thus I look at Southpark with suspicion
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RageAgainstTheAmish ago
Explain this then:
https://youtu.be/bctivboqvKo
It's more of like another attempt to expose pedophilia within the Catholic Church as they've done numerous times in the past
NOMOCHOMO ago
That's my first link, I'm aware of it.
There is a fine line between exposing and normalizing.
They clearly are joking about it.
Kids getting raped isn't funny. I find the love boat sketch clever, but this most recent episode was less clever and more distasteful
carmencita ago
I agree. Especially about there being a fine line.