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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Is Woke really dead? Are is south Park just saying
what everyone else is too afraid to admit? Welcome to hashtag,
go write with Peter Boykin, ill rite for go writnews
dot com, and this is hashtag go right with Peter Boykin.
When a cartoon hits harder than Congress, It started the
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way many modern culture shocks do in front of my
streaming device, cycling through expectations, chuckles, eye rolls, and everything
in between. The premiere of south Park season twenty seven
hit the screen, and within five minutes I was laughing, shocked, offended,
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and thinking that's rare these days, and a world where
late night TV is dead, where comedians are afraid to
be funny, and where superheroes now have to pass a
political purity test. South Park did what most of the
media won't. It punched everyone in the face equally and
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dared us the laugh while bleeding. But as the final
credits rolled and the scream faded the black I wasn't
just entertained. I was left staring at the reflection in
the blank screen, quietly asking myself, did Woke really die?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
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Speaker 3 (01:54):
They just gratuicing from the right side of history. Just
go right now, okay it away, go right job, stay out.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Say Joe in a flag one a right ba boy kin,
say go right now, I'll pay it away, Go right job,
stay loud, stay Joe on a flag one akin. Say
so you're not alone, No one is drawn and we're
just getting started. Joe, right.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Job? Why show why.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Welcome back to go write news where we tell the truth,
no matter who would offend. If you're here, you already
know we're not here to pander. We are not here
to virtue signal. We're here to look at culture, politics,
and so society through the lens of the constitution, common sense,
and courage. Let's break down what South Park just did
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and why it matters more than any sound bite from
cable news. South Park returns and declares the death of woke.
Season twenty seven of South Park did just returned with satire.
It returned with hell fire. The premiere episode, Sermon on
the Mount, set off a cultural earthquake by shoving every
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sacred cow, left, right, religious, political straight into the Woodshepherd.
The show depicted President Donald Trump naked in bed with Satan,
mocked the recent legal settlement between Trump and Paramount, south
Park owns corporate overloads, overlords, and laughed its way through
the sudden cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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All of this came just days after south Park creators
Trey Parker and Matt's signed a fifty episode streaming deal
with Paramount, then stood on stage at a comic con
and apologized by dead patting, We're terribly sorry, But they weren't,
and neither are we, because this episode didn't just bring
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back offensive comedy, it brought back cultural truth. It declared
what many Americans have been thinking for years. Woke is dead.
And strangely enough, despite mocking DEI, Trump, religion, NPR, and
leftist ideology all in one episode, no major outreach followed. Meanwhile,
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a movie like Superman sparked a firestone storm of criticism
simply for including kindness and immigration and his themes. One
gets celebrated, the other gets torched. Why Because south Park
speaks the truth and we let it. Superman tries and
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we panic. Let's dive into what south Park really said.
And what happened and why it's brutal honesty is exactly
what this country needs right now. Inside the episode's Sermon
on the Mount, the story begins with Cartman and Butters
realizing that woke culture has collapsed. NPR is defunded, DEI
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officers are gone, Identity politics is no longer the law
of the land. With no outrage left to cash in
on Cartman's spirals and to panic. Then comes a twist.
PC principle doesn't get fired. He reinvents himself. He becomes
power Christian principle, swinging from woke enforcer to religious authoratorium.
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Pronouns are out, hymns are in public schools go from
about identity politics to being about forced faith. The message
is clear. When you don't fix broken systems with you
don't fix them at all. You just flip the script.
Cartman's crisis signals the end of weaponize victim put. After
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DEI programming is erased and pronouns replaced with hymns, Cartman
has no power left to exploit. That's when he snaps.
He tried to cash in on anger, but when that
anger evaporated, so did his prevalence. Cartman represents the outrage economy,
activist influencers, DEI consultants who built careers on victim put
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but when the mob moves on, their narrative evaporates, and
South Park got that right. Cartman's meltdown isn't just a gag,
It's a message. And then comes one of the darkest
and funniest moments in the episode. Cartman and Butters enter
a suicide pack. Well, Butter's not so much deciding to
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die by carbon monoxide poison in a car if the
car is electric, there are no admissions. They sit in silence,
waiting to die and nothing happens. It's absurd, it's quiet,
but it's South Park doing what it does best, exposing
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how clueless people can be when they're trapped in a
world they don't understand. But there's an issue by many
only see the Trump jobs and miss the real message.
Let's be honest. Lots of people walked away or turned
off their screens angry at the Trump satire, and I
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don't think it's gonna go away.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Folks.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They saw Trump in bed with Satan and it's missed
the entire episode as left wing propaganda. But what they
missed is that South Park isn't attacking Trump alone. It's
attacking the extremes. It's seeing that, yes, we voted for Trump,
but maybe the evangelistic zeal of Mago went too far.
Maybe the gopiece flirt with national deocracy, like the speaker
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claiming that the Constitution doesn't require separation of church and State,
is just as dangerous as woke overreach. That's the point
behind PC principle becoming power Christian principle by flipping from
one form of ideological cohersion to another. The show warns
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extremes aren't solutions, they're just different prisons. So woke is dead,
and South Park proved it. Woke culture started as a call,
a call to awareness, but it was hijacked and weaponized
into a tool of control. It became the censorship and
the name of safety racism and the name of equity weakness,
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and the name of compassion and conformity in the name
of conclusion. South Park didn't just make fun of us,
it held a mirror to it. PC principle didn't disappear,
became something worse. Cartment didn't grow. He crashed, butters didn't resist.
He followed the message. If we keep letting power shift
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into pushing for real values, truth, merit liberty. We'll keep
replacing one bully with another, and that electric car sing
it proves something deeper. Even the exit plan doesn't work
when you don't understand the system you're trapped in. And
we're going to talk about that issuage again. The message.
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If we keep letting power shift without pushing for real value,
that's truth merit liberty. We'll keep replacing one bully with
another by south Park gets a pass while Superman gets
torched before takeoff as south Park through cultural grenades at
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every direction, at Trump, Dei, Magazelle's, and religious overreach, audience laughed, flinched,
and surprisingly let it happen. There were no mass calls
to cancel trade Parker and Matt Stone, no boycotts, no hashtags,
just stunned applause and viral clips. I mean, you had
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the White House that answered, but actually that just kind
of made it more popular. But contrasts that with what
happened to Superman, a film that had barely even premiered
before it was condemned. I mean, people online going, it's woke,
it's feminist, it's whoa, it's feminist. I'm like, have you
seen the film? No, don't, I'd be told it's not good. Well,
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the moment it was announced that the root boot would happen,
it happened to include FIBs like themes like kindness, empathy,
and immigration. I mean they called Superman an immigrant. Critics
on the right declared it woke garbage. The Internet led
up with claims that Superman had been hijacked by progressives
before anyone else had even seen more than a few
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frames of footage. So why the double standard? Because we
expect South Park to offend us. Its entire legacy is
built on punching both directions and dragging every ideology into
the mud. We trust that no one escapes unscave its honest,
if irrelevant. But with Superman, we expect sincerity, we expect hope,
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and we expect our childhood heroes to steer clear of
cultural wars. So when Superman dares to be kind, of, kind,
or inclusive, some recoil, not necessarily because they hate those values,
but because we've been trained to assume that sincerity now
equals agenda. It's a tragedy of our modern culture that
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irony earns trust and virtue earns suspicion. This cultural whiplash
reveals something deeper. We want satire to expose lies, but
when we no longer trust stories to tell the truth,
we accept the brutal honesty from the cartoon, but panic
when a Cape hero preaches compassion. Here's the difference. South
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Park doesn't pretend to be polite. It's not meant for families.
It's not designed to comfort anymore. It's made to punch
holes and lies, no matter who's telling them. From Al
Gore to Donald Trump, from religion to identity politics. South
Park goes after everyone. That's why it gets pass. You
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expect it to offend, and because it offends everyone, people
respect it even when it stings and it's stun But Superman,
that's different. He's a symbol, an American icon. He's supposed
to be clean cut, noble, and above politics. So when
director James Gunn describes Superman as an immigrant who believes
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in kindness, some people lost their freaking minds. No lectures,
no gender swapping kindness, and that was enough to trigger
a backlash. It shows where we are. We don't trust
our heroes anymore, but we trust our satirists to tell
us the truth. We've become a culture that laughs at
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honesty but shouts at virtue. We'll be right back with
my overall commentary. We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
It's long grand or just talk about it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Slip Thomas Grass.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
South parkt like a cultural blast, Cobert's Gone, dias aghost
and Charms crying for a job post Geezu's now for
You're in a Sunday soon from pronouns and rules?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Ain't that cute? Outrage is our silence is in? But
nobody sure? Who's gone on with.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
It?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Ain't a back up trump or rainbow cry.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
It's the whip last war on every side, no cave,
no crown, no compromise, just satire burning through those it's.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Really bad or just passed out in the bad fat
did we say?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sandy friends laugh while Charles here please.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
He's walk really gone?
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Or reborn with that?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Did the friends song?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Because when the straight is fine, we alls what we start.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
Card Man crack is the moss moved on.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
She's got no pronouns, no rights upon victim moods out,
but the fear still strong in the silence.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
In the testless thing and wrong, But supermans try to
stand with price Man the torture before he took his place.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Get black truth.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Thinks it's kind and cool. If you don't mock both sides,
you're a fool.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It's not left, it's not mack up.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Pride, it's extremes killed side, die's dead, flax tiss up here.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's with the new regime and crystal clean. It's walk
really dead or just sleep.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
In with the lights instead.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
Didn't we slap the ling or doubled in Fred smile
the lobbies?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
It's walk creat o my God?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Or dress not wit the different song when we.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Can't so right?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Pus a hell down Bailey, what's out? Buck bo? What's lost?
A fig? Let's over?
Speaker 11 (16:14):
Back ball for giass, sig le, break a roar, let
our shake the like that tire.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
As a dog? Try really dead or teed a crawl
back any your head.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
We don't need no chains in red, Just get a
trous dog fairris.
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the best.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
Swayney Rouse, the wait ay every day, not another welcome.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Best welcome back to hashtag go right with Peter Boykin.
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It's time for the hashtag go right with Peter Boy commentary.
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Cartman's breakdown a is it a warning that outrage culture
only works until the mob moves on? So let's be honest.
A lot of people didn't see the episode's brilliant because
they've got hung up on the jabs at Donald Trump. Yes,
the imagery of Trump in bed with Satan is jarring,
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but it's also the point. South Park isn't picking side.
It's calling out all sides, including the evangelistic Queen of Mecca,
including the Speaker of House who recently claimed the Constitution
doesn't mandate separation of church and state. It's satire, but
it's also a wake up call. Cartman's breakdown wasn't just funny,
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it's prophetic. When the world shifted from woke to not woke,
he didn't celebrate. He cracked because he had nothing left
to exploit. The outrage machine dried up. And that's a
mirror for a lot of so called influencers who only
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know how to be victims or villains. Even as myself,
someone who proudly found that gage for Trump, I felt
that cultural whiplash. Personally, I never needed rainbow flags in
the office, but when they vanished, especially in this June,
along with DEI support, it felt like a trapdoor opened
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un underneath us. Pride recognition was gone. The visibility that
made us feel seen, even if it was corporate, disappeared,
and I wondered had we just been pushed back into
the closet by a different kind of author thoryism, because
that's what South Park showed us. Extremes to get extreme
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first wokeless force, then anti woke became the new gospel,
and the truth got lost somewhere in between. We were
told DEI conflicted with the Constitution. Maybe it did well
at least equity does, but we were never told what
would replace it. And now that it's gone, the flags
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are gone to the conversations are gone, the dignity is gone,
and no one seems to care. We can't keep living
in a culture of whiplash. We can't keep swinging from
one extreme to another and calling of freedom. We need
to get back to truth, back to liberty, back to
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common sense, and yet back to constitutional sanity. Let South
Park be rude, let Superman be kind, Let us be
brave enough to admit that both might be right in
their own way. We don't need a theocracy or a
virtue cult. We need a constitutional republic that actually respects
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all citizens, not just the loudest cos we don't have
to trade tyranny for tyranny. We can reclaim what this
country stood for, truth, common sense, responsibility, constitutional liberty. We
need meriage, not at entity checks. We need thinkers, not followers.
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We need respect for biology and free speech, not rules
enforced by pr consultants. We live in a constitutional republic,
not an emotional echo chamber. The Bill of Rights protects liberty,
not feelings. So let me say it with clearity. Men
can't give birth. Silence is not violence, speech is not hate,
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Comedy is not a crime. Disagreement is not oppression. We
keep bending, they keep pushing. The more we apologize, the
more they rewrite truth. Let South Park be crude, let
Superman be noble, But let the rest of us be
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brave enough to be honest. Even if it costs comfort.
Followers are applause. If we stay silent, the next wave
won't come draped in gender confusion flags and forced pronouns.
It'll come in crosses, flags or clipboards demanding your silence.
This isn't a drill, This isn't satire. This is the
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fight for the souls of a free nation. It's time
to choose liberty over control, truth over tribes, right over easy,
It's time to go right. Thanks for tuning in to
this podcast. God bless everybody.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Peace, We done, We don't break.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
We speak truth that you scared to say, we don't kneal,
we don't break. We speak truth that you's scared to say,
we don't knel, we don't break.
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Wee spe true that scab and.
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Say we don't knee, we don't break.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
We'll be true.
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We don't know, we don't bring.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Say we don't know, we don't break with visuals, deel
scared to say we don't deal, we don't break.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Get out alone.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Your voice is strong, gold, glad you belong?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Does this go right with me? The Boy and the words.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Scared and started God, we need sont break.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
We speak truth that's you scared to say from the
right side of history, and the way.
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Speaker 5 (24:18):
We speak truth that's just scared to say from the bright.
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Speaker 9 (25:08):
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Your voice is song. You're not allowed.
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Your voice is sharp, You're not allowed, your voice is shock.
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