South Park Censoring Rant

[scoutsarge]

Maybe it's just the fact I'm on my first cup of coffee and I'm not thinking clearly, but hearing about South Park being censored genuinely pisses me off. Not that I care that much about South Park. I don't watch it regularly, and when I do catch a bit, it is genuinely crude and stupid humor. I do respect that consistently, South Park has held

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[robotapocalypse]

Dear Muslim extremists,

Do not mess with computer-literate slacker South Park fans who have lots of time and are mad that you threatened to kill the creators of their show. They will strike back.

[sarah_sdr]

Not so thrilled with the hacking part, but love the comments to the article! Just when I'm about to throw my hands up and cry in defeat, I see something that sparks that hope that maybe, just maybe, there ARE people out there who are willing and able to actually USE that brain that G-d gave them. (The O is intentionally omitted so as not to offend any devout whatevers.)

Anyone else find it ironic that Muslims and Christians and Jews are basically cousin religions whose extremist/fundamentalists can't get along at all? The rest of the world seems to manage much better to accept that there are different perspectives without being threatened by it. I mean, really, how many Buddhist terrorists have you heard of recently?

[robotapocalypse]

Aum Shinrikyo (1995 sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway). Also, medieval Japanese history includes conflicts between Buddhist monasteries for control over orthodoxy.

I'm also very, very hesitant to believe that there are no Buddhist terrorists operating in the anti-government movements in places like Burma and Tibet. Somehow "monks" keep having demonstrations and protests, but nobody ever details them beyond the fact that they're monks. American media has two very different lenses that it uses: when it looks at and reports on the Middle East, religion is right up at the front. Factors that complicate the Bad Muslims vs. Good Americans and their Middle Eastern Friends narrative are elided. When that same media looks at Asia, religion is far to the back and the conflicts are merely "political."

[sarah_sdr]

Times like this I'm really proud to say I'm your wife.

[eidolon_dusk]

Love ya Ben. You rock.