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damnedifIknow

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Thu Nov 12, 2015, 02:25 PM Nov 2015

South Park’ Endorses ‘Ferguson Effect,’ Presents a World Without ‘Racist, Trigger-Happy’ Cops

What would the world look like if all the ‘racist’ cops packed up and left town? This is how South Park took on the police violence issue Wednesday night.

The Colorado town at the center of South Park has experienced some major transformations during the show’s 19th season, from the arrival of bro-tastic “P.C. Principal” at South Park Elementary, to the violent rejection of a Donald Trump-esque Canadian president, to the gentrifying arrival of a bona fide Whole Foods in the trendy SoDoSoPa neighborhood.

On Wednesday night, the politically correct trend continued as the citizens of South Park decided to oust the “racist, trigger-happy assholes,” also known as police officers, from town. “Wow, we’ve only had a Whole Foods for a month and already we don’t need cops,”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/11/south-park-tackles-police-brutality-presents-a-world-without-racist-trigger-happy-cops.html

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South Park’ Endorses ‘Ferguson Effect,’ Presents a World Without ‘Racist, Trigger-Happy’ Cops (Original Post) damnedifIknow Nov 2015 OP
I watched it last night. Renew Deal Nov 2015 #1
I watched it. I found it rather amusing. n/t Throd Nov 2015 #2

Renew Deal

(81,860 posts)
1. I watched it last night.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 02:32 PM
Nov 2015

It's one of the funniest episodes they've ever done. I laughed every time someone ran off in terror from Ninja ISIS.

The episode made a lot of points. They don't cut any one way.

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