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* 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.
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** 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]] [[StrawmanHasAPoint seem founded, if misdirected.]]

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** 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 seem founded, if misdirected.]]misdirected]].

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* MisaimedFandom: 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]] [[StrawmanHasAPoint seem founded, if misdirected.]]
* {{Misblamed}}: The show'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.

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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]] [[StrawmanHasAPoint seem founded, if misdirected.]]
* {{Misblamed}}: ** The show's 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.
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* WhatAnIdiot:
** Randy is on ''Wheel of Fortune'', and the final puzzle is N_GGERS.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Randy to realize that an offensive slur, one he even questioned, would not be broadcasted live.\\
'''Instead''': [[SchmuckBait Randy blurts out an offensive slur,]] believing it to be the answer. It wasn't.[[note]]The answer was NAGGERS[[/note]]\\
'''The Result''': Randy's family is embarrassed, Token distances himself from Stan, and Randy is labeled as [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten "The Nigger Guy"]].
** The next day at school, Stan goes to Token to try and clear the air.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Stan to acknowledge that he can't even begin to imagine how Token must feel after last night's incident, even if Randy said the N-word out of stupidity and not out of malice towards black people.\\
'''Instead''': [[InnocentlyInsensitive Stan just tells Token that his dad was being stupid and that it's "no big deal".]] Token tells Stan that it ''is'' a big deal and walks away angry with him. Cue Stan spending the rest of the episode trying and failing to apologize to him without understanding what he did wrong.
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** The next day at school, Stan goes to Token to try and clear the air.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Stan to acknowledge that he can't even begin to imagine how Token must feel after last night's incident, even if Randy said the N-word out of stupidity and not out of malice towards black people.\\
'''Instead''': [[InnocentlyInsensitive Stan just tells Token that his dad was being stupid and that it's "no big deal".]] Token tells Stan that it ''is'' a big deal and walks away angry with him. Cue Stan spending the rest of the episode trying and failing to apologize to him without understanding what he did wrong.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Randy is on ''Wheel of Fortune'', and the final puzzle is N_GGERS.\\

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Randy is on ''Wheel of Fortune'', and the final puzzle is N_GGERS.\\



'''Instead''': Randy blurts out an offensive slur, believing it to be the answer.\\

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'''Instead''': [[SchmuckBait Randy blurts out an offensive slur, slur,]] believing it to be the answer.\\answer. It wasn't.[[note]]The answer was NAGGERS[[/note]]\\
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* MisaimedFandom: 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.

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* MisaimedFandom: 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]] [[StrawmanHasAPoint seem founded, if misdirected.]]
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* MisaimedFandom: While Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone are very vocal advocates of free speech, even they don't believe that people who use the N-word should expect 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.

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* MisaimedFandom: While Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone are very vocal advocates of free speech, even they don't believe that people who use the N-word should expect 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.
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* MisaimedFandom: While Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone are very vocal advocates of free speech, even they don't believe that people who use the N-word should expect 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.
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'''The Result''': Randy's family is embarrassed, Token distances himself from Stan, and Randy is labeled as [[NeverLiveItDown "The Nigger Guy"]].

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'''The Result''': Randy's family is embarrassed, Token distances himself from Stan, and Randy is labeled as [[NeverLiveItDown [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten "The Nigger Guy"]].
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'''Instead''': Randy blurts out an offensive slur.\\
'''Result''': Randy's family is embarrassed, Token distances himself from Stan, and several are out for Randy's blood.

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'''Instead''': Randy blurts out an offensive slur.slur, believing it to be the answer.\\
'''Result''': '''The Result''': Randy's family is embarrassed, Token distances himself from Stan, and several are out for Randy's blood.Randy is labeled as [[NeverLiveItDown "The Nigger Guy"]].
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The scene where Randy literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass feels like less of an exaggeration in 2020 with some white people getting down on their knees and begging black people for forgiveness for all the racism throughout history. If Randy had blurted the slur in 2020, he might have been arrested, and/or disowned by his family for their safety.

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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)? Even ''he'' wasn't sure if it was appropriate.

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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think is on ''Wheel of Fortune'', and the final puzzle is N_GGERS.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Randy to realize
that an offensive word aimed towards a race slur, one he even questioned, would not be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)? Even ''he'' wasn't sure if it was appropriate.live.\\
'''Instead''': Randy blurts out an offensive slur.\\
'''Result''': Randy's family is embarrassed, Token distances himself from Stan, and several are out for Randy's blood.
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* ValuesResonance: The final exchange between Token and Stan, in light of the 2020's Black Lives Matter movement, is often seen as a short and explicit guideline to any white ally of the cause.
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* ValuesResonance: The final exchange between Token and Stan, in light of the 2020's Black Lives Matter movement, is often seen as a short and explicit guideline to any white ally of the cause.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The scene where Randy literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass feels like less of an exaggeration in 2020 with some white people getting down on their knees and begging black people for forgiveness for all the racism throughout history. If this had occured in 2020, Randy would've been lucky not to have been arrested.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The scene where Randy literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass feels like less of an exaggeration in 2020 with some white people getting down on their knees and begging black people for forgiveness for all the racism throughout history. If this Randy had occured blurted the slur in 2020, Randy would've been lucky not to he might have been arrested.arrested, and/or disowned by his family for their safety.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The scene where Randy literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass feels like less of an exaggeration in 2020 with some white people getting down on their knees and begging black people for forgiveness for all the racism throughout history.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The scene where Randy literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass feels like less of an exaggeration in 2020 with some white people getting down on their knees and begging black people for forgiveness for all the racism throughout history. If this had occured in 2020, Randy would've been lucky not to have been arrested.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The scene where Randy literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass feels like less of an exaggeration in 2020 with some white people getting down on their knees and begging black people for forgiveness for all the racism throughout history.
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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)? Even ''he'' wasn't sure if it was appropriate.

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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)? Even ''he'' wasn't sure if it was appropriate.appropriate.
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* {{Misblamed}}: The show'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 Trey and Matt [[WhiteMansBurden playing the victim card]] as an excuse to say "nigger" as many times as they wanted.

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* {{Misblamed}}: The show'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 Trey and Matt the creators [[WhiteMansBurden playing the victim card]] as an excuse to say "nigger" as many times as they wanted.
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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)?

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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)?live)? Even ''he'' wasn't sure if it was appropriate.
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Naggers is a real word.


* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)?
** For that matter, whoever came up with the puzzle is this, as the correct answer ("Naggers") is not a real word.

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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)?
** For that matter, whoever came up with the puzzle is this, as the correct answer ("Naggers") is not a real word.
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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)?

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* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)?live)?
** For that matter, whoever came up with the puzzle is this, as the correct answer ("Naggers") is not a real word.
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* {{Misblamed}}: The show'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 Trey and Matt [[WhiteMansBurden playing the victim card]] as an excuse to say "nigger" as many times as they wanted.

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* {{Misblamed}}: The show'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 Trey and Matt [[WhiteMansBurden playing the victim card]] as an excuse to say "nigger" as many times as they wanted.wanted.
* WhatAnIdiot: While it was an accident, what made Randy think that an offensive word aimed towards a race would be the correct answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle (which was broadcasted live)?
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Not YMMV


* BrokenAesop: This episode tried to state that a white kid like Stan can't understand the implications of racial slurs, even when they aren't used in a racist context. While that in itself could be considered a useful aesop, it's contradicted by the season 13 episode "The F Word." That episode's plot is about being allowed to use the term "fag" when mocking [[AcceptableTargets Harley riders]], despite the word's history as a derogatory towards homosexuals.[[note]]Trey and Matt have defended that episode by claiming that they only know fag as it's more "traditional" meaning, ie a loser, but few fans agree with them.[[/note]]
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* BrokenAesop: This episode tried to state that a white kid like Stan can't understand the implications of racial slurs, even when they aren't used in a racist context. While that in itself could be considered a useful aesop, it's contradicted by the season 13 episode "The F Word." That episode's plot is about being allowed to use the term "fag" when mocking [[AcceptableTargets Harley riders]], despite the word's history as a derogatory towards homosexuals.[[Note]]Trey and Matt have defended that episode by claiming that they only know fag as it's more "traditional" meaning, ie a loser, but few fans agree with them.[[/note]]

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* BrokenAesop: This episode tried to state that a white kid like Stan can't understand the implications of racial slurs, even when they aren't used in a racist context. While that in itself could be considered a useful aesop, it's contradicted by the season 13 episode "The F Word." That episode's plot is about being allowed to use the term "fag" when mocking [[AcceptableTargets Harley riders]], despite the word's history as a derogatory towards homosexuals.[[Note]]Trey [[note]]Trey and Matt have defended that episode by claiming that they only know fag as it's more "traditional" meaning, ie a loser, but few fans agree with them.[[/note]]

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* BrokenAesop: This episode tried to state that a white kid like Stan can't understand the implications of racial slurs, even when they aren't used in a racist context. While that in itself could be considered a useful aesop, it's contradicted by the season 13 episode "The F Word." That episode's plot is about being allowed to use the term "fag" when mocking [[AcceptableTargets Harley riders]], despite the word's history as a derogatory towards homosexuals.

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* BrokenAesop: This episode tried to state that a white kid like Stan can't understand the implications of racial slurs, even when they aren't used in a racist context. While that in itself could be considered a useful aesop, it's contradicted by the season 13 episode "The F Word." That episode's plot is about being allowed to use the term "fag" when mocking [[AcceptableTargets Harley riders]], despite the word's history as a derogatory towards homosexuals.[[Note]]Trey and Matt have defended that episode by claiming that they only know fag as it's more "traditional" meaning, ie a loser, but few fans agree with them.[[/note]]
* {{Misblamed}}: The show'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 Trey and Matt [[WhiteMansBurden playing the victim card]] as an excuse to say "nigger" as many times as they wanted.
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* BrokenAesop: This episode tried to state that a white kid like Stan can't understand the implications of racial slurs, even when they aren't used in a racist context. While that in itself could be considered a useful aesop, it's contradicted by the season 13 episode "The F Word." That episode's plot is about being allowed to use the term "fag" when mocking [[AcceptableTargets Harley riders]], despite the word's history as a derogatory towards homosexuals.

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