http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/ Switched Comments for Facebook and 'South Park' Blamed for Anti-Redhead Assault http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/Nov 24th 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/
If that's the case, then you must believe that the sponsors are buying air-time during South Park for the pure fun of it, and throwing away their money, since you're claiming that the show has no influence with viewers regarding the purchase of products advertised during it.

Likewise, this episode was clearly different than others; while others are satirical in that the mean the OPPOSITE of what they say, this one this one indicated that parents of redheads really DO hate their kids; and nothing really bad happened to Cartman in the end-- he just got away with his hate. Meanwhile they wouldn't have DARED to make these statements about any other group.]]>May 16th 2010 11:09PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/Nov 24th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/May 17th 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/Nov 27th 2009 12:22AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/May 16th 2010 11:00PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/
What I'm really left wondering is whether this was a real beat-down or just some annoying punches and kicks. There is a difference although neither should be tolerated in a school. Was this red-headed kid seriously hurt, or was he just tired of the stupidity - like the one kid who forgets to wear green on St. Patty's day and gets sick of being pinched all day?

At the end of the day, I'd have to agree that this all boils down to poor parenting - again. (This is just me, but I wouldn't even let my kids watch South Park. I get that their Ginger Day episode was satirical - I just think it's a stupid show. And, I think there are more productive things my kids could be doing than watching cartoons.) ]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/24/facebook-and-south-park-blamed-for-anti-redhead-assault/Hypocrites obviously aren't interested in logic, since they're obviously WRONG; they just want to make excuses for their double-standards; a hypocrite is, by definition, a PHONY-- again, they WANT to be prejudiced and bigoted, and to rationalize their hate against someone; but they are also cowards, and so don't want anyone to hold it against them. So they cowardly attack only "safe" targets, i.e. those whom society labels as being safe to hate-- which USED to include blacks and Jews, as well as other ethnic-groups and women etc, but now is pretty much down to redheads as a genome-related group.

This is the perpetual defense I see of the double-standards of why hating redheads "isn't as bad as racism--" i.e. the hypocrites cherry-pick the details, while ignoring the ethical principle that it's not about the effect, but the principle of hating and defaming a group because they look different. It doesn't matter how bad some ethnic group USED TO BE treated, that doesn't justify treating redheads worse NOW... but the hypocrites seem to think so. That's what makes them hypocrites: they don't care about right and wrong, just APPEARING right to others.
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