History YMMV / SouthParkS11E1WithApologiesToJesseJackson

** While Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone are very vocal advocates of free speech, even they don't believe that people who use the N-word should be able to just give a bland apology and then expect all the consequences of using the slur to go away and never be mentioned again. That hasn't stopped certain viewers from seeing Randy (and Creator/MichaelRichards and Mark Fuhrman) as the true victim in the episode, believing that his apology to Jesse Jackson should have been the end of the matter, and that Token is unreasonable for not immediately accepting Stan's claim that Randy just made a really stupid mistake and isn't actually racist. It probably doesn't help that the episode also chooses to lampoon virtue-signalling white people at the same time (Randy is banned from stores and threatened with violence by sanctimonious hillbillies), making the group's complaints of harassment and being given NoSympathy [[DisproportionateRetribution over a racial slur]] seem [[StrawmanHasAPoint founded, if misdirected]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: Words, and especially racial slurs, have power, and you shouldn't use them unless if you're ready to deal with the consequences of saying them. Furthermore, [[DoubleStandard if there was an equivalent of the N-word that was equally racist and offensive to white people, it would get outlawed easily]].

** The episode's message, that [[DoubleStandard a word as offensive to white people as "nigger" is to black people would have no trouble being boycotted]], was lost on critics who simply saw the creators [[WhiteMansBurden playing the victim card]] as an excuse to say "nigger" as many times as they wanted.

* CrossesTheLineTwoce: As usual for South Park, Randy saying the n-word with such ecstacy is ''very'' amusing.

* ValuesResonance: This episode has become more poignant in the age of social media and cancel culture where saying the wrong thing online can invite harassment, bullying and death threats that can completely destroy someone's life even if the thing said was years before the harassment began and when the person was younger and dumber.