Op-Ed: No Lindy West, “South Park” Didn’t Create The Alt-Right

Outrage culture continues it’s assault on adult animation, and it’s coming from both extreme liberal AND conservative viewpoints. While websites like Newsbusters are yelling at Family Guy’s most recent episode about being anti-Christian and now author Lindy West is in an interview with Esquire with an outrageous claim that South Park helped “pave the way for the alt-right”:

ESQ: What role did South Park play in giving rise to the alt-right, in your opinion?

LW: It’s all speculation, but the line certainly adds up. I think that South Park fetishized irreverence in this way that was completely all-consuming for at least the first ten years that it was on. I don’t hear people talk about South Park quite as much now, but for a long time, it saturated everything. Obviously irreverence has its place, but some things do deserve reverence. That sort of untethered omnidirectional irreverence is not particularly helpful when you’re trying to salvage a wildly unjust, oppressive, and unequal society. The alt-right feels like a full generation of boys who think that Cartman is aspirational. Good luck with that.

While Lindy admits it’s speculation, the writer who has made a living in taking extremist liberal viewpoints from Twitter and turning them into books certainly makes an outlandish claim with zero merit and is clearly an abscess of the ridiculous “woke” culture that has reared it’s ugly head. Former President Barack Obama has even made a point against call out culture and he’s 100% right. Fortunately, I think we’re coming out the other end and this ridiculous movement for censorship and certainly this claim of South Park somehow having anything to do with the horrid acts of a select few is really unbelievable.

It’s all subjective. In a recent interview, comedian Nina G. has actually noted that South Park having jokes at the expense of handicap people is actually seen as an equalizer in that, no one should be safe from jokes and intent is everything. So regardless of your political, ethnic, or religious affiliation, the job of comedy is to show a mirror to the world just how ludicrous these conventions are. And when Twitter dies in three years, people like Lindy West are going to need to find a different career path.