breaking news: white guy relates to south park's depiction of 'era of outrage'
Maybe people catch on that garbage comes out of one's mouth is always reactionary rejection of other peoples' experiences and stop pretending one is acting in good faith.
At the root of it, wholesale asserting that someone's grievances are invalid because they are too stupid or too malevolent to understand their own life experience is a very stupid kind of elitism.
South Park is a mouthpiece for very stupid elitism. It's not exclusive to generic men like Stone and Parker but it's also very commonly preferred by generic men who haven't outgrown their misanthropic teenager phase.
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” -Toni Morrison
So maybe white, but possibly not. It is a personal decision. It is a statement about one's personal politics where one sees their identity as either apolitical or that it ought to be apolitical. Perhaps even that identity politics itself should not be a thing. A politics of generic identity.
I said 'men' because I was referring to Stone and Parker. Their politics epitomize genericity and a politics of being apolitical which is functionally a reactionary politics.
Many of us have personal grievances, and if the words of these folks should be believed, than mine are as real as theirs. Yet I do not expect the world to change to fit my narrative.
What you are implying is that those other people are valuing their grievances incorrectly: They aren't as important as they think they are. After all, you don't value your own grievances as much.
I think that's a logical error.
And rooted in all of this, and I am not accusing you of doing this because we haven't brought up any specific examples, but there's a cognitive bias that people have where they think they can judge other peoples' life experiences just as well as those people, and that their value judgments are in some way objective and do not depend on the differences in social context between them and those people.
Most modern ideologies that aren't some authoritarian or paternalistic drivel soundly disagree with such fallacious reasoning.
My point of view is that I'm not as smart as I think I am about other people, and if I had a tv show I could use as a bully pulpit I wouldn't be using it to say "lol what a bunch of s aren't they so stupid and absurd"?
Because I think that's gross.