Answer honestly--have you EVER considered seeing a comedian or comedy movie by wondering "Is this gonna be MATURE enough for me?"
You don't like South Park--fine. But if it were the same show but aimed entirely at your ideological opposites, you'd be singing a different song.
Yes, indeed. You don't like South Park--fine. But if it were the same show but aimed entirely at your ideological opposites, you'd be singing a different song.
It's not about "like." It's about standards of decency and "good humor" vs. humor as assault and battery -- any or all of those words I just used, for defamation, ridicule, etc. -- the legal word for that qualitative factor is "malice." Malice can either mean intent to harm, or ignorance, disregard or disrespect of another.
Much satire has an absence of malice. Much satire does not. For instance, South Park's sullying the person of Jesus Christ is utterly not in keeping with normal respect for that person. I saw the clip about Mohammed. It sure appeared to me to have intent to mock and ridicule with intent to take pleasure in their defamation. So much so that it didn't even make sense to me. (A bear? Huh.)
Did I see the episode? No. Because South Park is crude and hostile, by its nature. Certainly not mature (virtuous, sensible) enough for me to invest my time in it.
Funny thing is, I'm having a very different discussion about humor in another thread, defending the General who told the story of the Taliban dude and the Jewish Merchant -- and who is unjustly taking heat for discrediting Jews as "greedy," something that joke was just not about. I guess it's humor or not humor day.