Matt Stone and Trey Parker are the creators of the Comedy Central animated sitcom "South Park." (Photo : Reuters )
After dealing with the PC culture in "South Park" season 19 premiere, episode 2 titled "Where My Country Gone?" took a different direction, focusing on Donald Trump and his immigration reforms.
In the second episode, Mr. Garrison believes Kyle's viral speech about Caitlyn Jenner and tolerance is the cause of so many undocumented Canadians being in the "South Park" version of the U.S. After being forced by PC Principal to learn "Canadian language," Mr. Garrison sings an intensely offensive song called "Where's My Country Gone."
Significant highlights from the song of bigotry include:
It took 43 presidents for us to stand tall, and one black president unravel it all
When they said that this was the land of the free, I'm pretty sure that they were referring to me
In case the show continues building on the same storyline, viewers should expect seeing more of Mr. Garrison's bigotry as the season progresses.
Soon after the song, Mr. Garrison, who turns out to be Trump, began an anti-immigrant movement. He admitted that he doesn't know anything about immigration policy before pointing out that he is going to "do something about it."
It seems like the slippery slope that is political correctness will be central throughout "South Park" season 19. In the history of "South Park," Kyle has served as a fairly rational voice that encourages compromise and understanding in the wildly extreme universe they exist.
In episode 2, Kyle was crucified for his fairly innocuous comments about Caitlyn Jenner. By the end of the episode, Kyle gave up. Any time he tried to make one of his conventional "moral of the story" speeches, he met with judgmental gazes from Eric Cartman and many others blaming him for undocumented immigration.
Kyle represents the perceptions that at time the most sensible solutions are drowned out by the voices of the extreme. Furthermore, because of the tension around political correctness, someone cannot even express his or her opinion without being trampled upon. He could also be a representative of the candidates that have been widely ignored even though there have more structure to their political manifesto than someone like the "President of Canada" in the "South Park" world.
