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I'd say they are a mixed bag with how they handle handle things. Obviously they are a very mixed bag on LGBT+, They have little bits of support here and there, and huge mockery and issues at other points. Climate change and environmental issues, they fell straight into the liberterian hole of "it's all a hoax". With every character who believed it being a complete idiot or a manipulative monster. Though I do have to give them props for eventually realizing their mistakes and making newer episodes basically mocking their former view. I have far more support for a group that can realize their own mistakes and take the time to communicate a correction in their format.
Explanation for those who don't watch south park. One of the most famous ones is Manbearpig. Basically in the episode Al Gore was constantly leading the kids into danger and causing destruction trying to protect everyone from a monster he called manbearpig. Which is basically implied in the episode that it's all in al gore's head.
Several years later they did a different episode in which, manbearpig actually appears and starts wrecking the city, and everyone stands around either saying that they don't believe manbearpig is real (right in front of wakes of destruction and death), to immidiately saying "oh no manbearpig is real, but it's too late to do anything so we just have to watch him destroy everything"
Al Gore was insufferable and did more damage to climate change awareness than he did good. His movie was massively overblown and inflated and paranoid. He was a coward who gave up the election in Florida and then went full bore into this issue, while he himself was massive hypocritical in his own life, having a massive carbon footprint while telling the rest of us to stop driving our cars.
They were targeting Gore more than Climate change.
I've never denied climate change but even when Inconvenient Truth came out and I watched it, I was like 'this is some over the top bullshit.' Michael Moore had the same problem, massively over dramatizing shit and shooting himself in the food in many of his documentaries.
Liberals and leftists fuck up all the time when it comes to an accurate portrayal of events, dangers, and reality. And yeah South Park goes after them for that, as they should.
What almost nobody gets is that South park isn't targeting issues, it's targeting the inflated egos of those involved in the issues. When you use a social issue to feel socially superior to other people, you're a pathetic dickhead and you need to be taken down a notch. That is what South park does. Your notion of 'justice' or 'truth' doesn't excuse you from being a miserable abusive cunt to other people around you, or the violence you think is justified in the name of your 'freedom'.
I can agree with the concept that yes making fun of the people is a different matter than the issue. but to be fair their metaphors on all climate change and environment issues in the early seasons, were almost always universally put with something that flat out doesn't exist. Hence why their semi-correction episode that came out years later, specifically involved admitting it did. IE the message from that episode wasn't "Al gore is going about this in the wrong way". it was "there is no right way because he's chasing nothing". Seconds in a different episode where the kids destroyed a dam, blamed it on global warming, and all the scientifically minded characters blindly listened.
IE you can compare that to say how Sally Struthers was treated in the "Starvin Marvin" plot, or the anti-bully organizations etc... where they didn't pretend that the activists were hallucinating/fabricating the problem.... but did attack the hell out of them for the directions of their solutions.
They have very different ways they handle "bad solutions to real problems", and "the problem isn't even real".
Nah, leftists and liberals rarely exaggerate the problems, but instead go about communicating it in horrible ways that only works when someone already agrees.
I wish I remembered all the dumb slogans that were flying around in 2015-2020. They were mostly about as useful as, "fuck the police" for appealing to someone that doesn't understand the oppression/authoritarianism so they think you just want to get away with crimes or similar...