Touche.

Again, personal responsibility. The people who commit these actions in real life are the culprits, not people writing a t.v. series. Mel Brooks isn't responsible for the Neo Nazi movement just because he wrote the song "Springtime for Hitler."

On the other hand, PC Principal isn't disingenuous. He really believes in making the world a better place. He may be irritating as hell, and wrong, but he has a good heart.

I think the two are interrelated, but I'd agree it is far more the former than the latter.

They put out no message. They made a joke.

I disagree. It isn't a straw man. It exists.

Comedy show writers have no responsibility when a joke is taken seriously. They even had an episode where Stan and Kyle tried to trick Cartman into empathizing with ginger kids by "turning" him ginger. Of course it didn't work. Cartman being Cartman, he turned the gingers into a fascist group bent on exterminating…

You have a warped sense of personal responsibility. Somehow it's someone else's personal responsibility, not the people personally responsible. I guess you hold Ice-T responsible for "Cop Killer."

Yeah, they are responsible for people missing the point of their jokes. Sure. I guess Norman Lear is responsible for David Duke, having created Archie Bunker and all…

Yes, South Park is responsible for "national kick a ginger kid" day (is that really a thing?), not the people who, you know, invented and practice "national kick a ginger kid" day (is that really a thing?).

Wow, two Republicans. Almost forty years apart.

I support the Chinese "Beiber Policy."

Maybe if you stopped making one extremist the emblem of the party and its platform, you'd be able to communicate something of worth.

Sure, it's a major platform of the Republican party—electrocuting gay kids. And deporting Muslims. (Even Trump—for all his destructive, intolerant immigration policies—isn't trying to "deport Muslims," if you've bothered to keep up with the issue.)

Eugenics advocate, eh?

It it's any version of Family Ties, it smells all right.

You said the right can't justify voting for murderers based on the murderer's other policies, even though you're justifying voting for Clinton and Obama on the same grounds. You haven't talked about the Republicans' other policies at all.

Whether "political correctness" is a term invented by the left or right is debatable and complex and beside the point anyway. It describes a behavior many so-called liberals not only endorse but have worked to make mandatory on college campuses and in corporate culture. To say it doesn't exist because conservatives…

The 'member berrries are the most brilliant concept the show has ever come up with. It's frustrating that they just got dropped—but then, they were part of a plot development that didn't come true.

Except that isn't the argument you've been making, in this conversation anyway.