PhilGoetz comments on Manufacturing prejudice - Less Wrong

24 Post author: PhilGoetz 03 April 2011 05:26PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 02 April 2011 09:16:54PM *  3 points [-]

South Park is usually ironic. Cartman's crusade against redheads is supposed to look silly, and to stand for other, more mainstream prejudices.

On the Cheezburger network, it's self-consciously ironic. It's written by internet geeks pretending to be prejudiced against red-heads because they think it's a funny parody of other prejudices.