Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show and slammed “South Park” as “so lazy” and “petty” after she became the Comedy Central series’ latest target.
“It never ends, but it’s so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem told Beck about the episode, while also acknowledging she did not watch it because she was “going over budget numbers and stuff.”
“It’s always the liberals and the extremists who do that,” Noem added. “If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t, they just pick something petty like that.”
You’re correct to call them edgy contrarians. To claim that they just want to make fun of people who drive electric cars also misses the point and falls in line with the same thing that ICE Barbie said just from a left wing point of view.
In their 28 years of making movies, tv shows, and plays they have mocked: every religion, evangelicals, climate change(which they have apologized for), the US military, Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, electric car owners, people who are overly PC, rednecks who blame immigrants for the loss of their jobs, gay people, trans people, corporations like Walmart and Amazon, George Bush, Dick Cheney, boarder control, Jewish people, Japanese people, Norwegians, the British, Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, OJ Simpson, Jean Bennet Ramsey’s parents, Charlie Manson, and countless others. This is just what I could come up with in a couple of minutes.
So basically everyone and every ideology has been made fun of by them at some point. As you said, edgy contrarians.
It’s almost like they’re saying “don’t be an ideologue”.