The employment of satire is also superbly crafted throughout the episode. The very first scene in the classroom is a clue to the racist commentary of South Park. However, it was masked by ultimately tackling a very different matter, the issue of class. It is the implicitness and irony of satire that distinguishes this episode from racism. The elements above proved that this episode did not cross the line between satire and racism. The intention was to ridicule the racial discrimination against the blacks by absolutely using a different issue and reversing the norm to create the humor. The total denial of the episode’s real issue, that is race, is what makes it funnier and conveys a more powerful message. The message is that the hate they feel towards the “rich” is so strong that they were blinded as to why it came to be. The same way it occurred to racism against minorities, some do not even know why they do it, they just do because it was what they see
The employment of satire is also superbly crafted throughout the episode. The very first scene in the classroom is a clue to the racist commentary of South Park. However, it was masked by ultimately tackling a very different matter, the issue of class. It is the implicitness and irony of satire that distinguishes this episode from racism. The elements above proved that this episode did not cross the line between satire and racism. The intention was to ridicule the racial discrimination against the blacks by absolutely using a different issue and reversing the norm to create the humor. The total denial of the episode’s real issue, that is race, is what makes it funnier and conveys a more powerful message. The message is that the hate they feel towards the “rich” is so strong that they were blinded as to why it came to be. The same way it occurred to racism against minorities, some do not even know why they do it, they just do because it was what they see