Is Woke Really Dead? or Is South Park Just Saying What Everyone Else Is Too Afraid to Admit?
Written by Peter Boykin on July 28, 2025
Is Woke Really Dead?
or Is South Park Just Saying
What Everyone Else Is Too Afraid to Admit?
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American Political Commentator / Citizen Journalist / Activist / Constitutionalist for Liberty
Is Woke Really Dead?
or Is South Park Just Saying
What Everyone Else Is Too Afraid to Admit?
#GoRight with Peter Boykin | GoRightNews.com
When a Cartoon Hits Harder Than Congress
It started the way many modern culture shocks do, in front of my streaming device, cycling through expectations, chuckles, eye rolls, and everything in between.
The premiere of South Park Season 27 hit the screen, and within five minutes I was laughing, shocked, offended, and… thinking. That’s rare these days. In a world where late night TV is dead, where comedians are afraid to be funny, and where superheroes now have to pass a political purity test, South Park did what most of the media won’t: it punched everyone in the face equally and dared us to laugh while bleeding.
But as the final credits rolled and the screen faded to black, I wasn’t just entertained. I was left staring at the reflection in the blank screen, quietly asking myself:
Did Woke really die?
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Let’s break down what South Park just did, and why it matters more than any soundbite from cable news.
South Park Returns and Declares the Death of Woke
Season 27 of South Park didn’t just return with satire; it returned with hellfire.
The premiere episode, Sermon On the ‘Mount, set off a cultural earthquake by shoving every sacred cow, Left, Right, religious, political, straight into the woodchipper. The show depicted President Donald Trump naked in bed with Satan, mocked the recent legal settlement between Trump and Paramount (South Park’s own corporate overlords), and laughed its way through the sudden cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
All of this came just days after South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a 50‑episode streaming deal with Paramount+, then stood onstage at Comic-Con and “apologized” by deadpanning: “We’re terribly sorry.”
But they weren’t sorry, and neither are we.
Because this episode didn’t just bring back offensive comedy. It brought back cultural truth. It declared what many Americans have been thinking for years:
Woke is dead.
And strangely enough, despite mocking DEI, Trump, religion, NPR, and leftist ideology all in one episode, no major outrage followed.
Meanwhile, a movie like Superman sparked a firestorm of criticism simply for including kindness and immigration in its themes. One gets celebrated, the other gets torched. Why? Because South Park speaks the truth, and we let it. Superman tries, and we panic.
Let’s dive into what South Park really said, what happened, and why its brutal honesty is exactly what this country needs right now.
Inside the Episode: Sermon On the ‘Mount
The story begins with Cartman and Butters realizing that woke culture has collapsed. NPR is defunded. DEI officers are gone. Identity politics is no longer the law of the land. With no outrage left to cash in on, Cartman spirals into panic.
Then comes a twist: PC Principal doesn’t get fired, he reinvents himself. He becomes Power Christian Principal, swinging from woke enforcer to religious authoritarian. Pronouns are out, hymns are in. Public schools go from being about identity to being about forced faith.
The message is clear: when you don’t fix broken systems with balance, you don’t fix them at all, you just flip the script.
Cartman’s Crisis Signals the End of Weaponized Victimhood
After DEI programming is erased and pronouns replaced with hymns, Cartman has no power left to exploit. That’s when he snaps. He tried to cash in on anger, but when that anger evaporated, so did his relevance.
Cartman represents the outrage economy, activists, influencers, DEI consultants who built careers on victimhood. But when the mob moves on, their narrative evaporates.
And South Park got that right.
Cartman’s meltdown isn’t just a gag. It’s a message.
And then comes one of the darkest and funniest moments in the episode: Cartman and Butters enter a suicide pact, deciding to die by carbon monoxide poisoning in a car. But the car is electric. There are no emissions. They sit in silence, waiting to die, and… nothing happens.
It’s absurd. It’s quiet. It’s South Park doing what it does best, exposing how clueless people can be when they’re trapped in a world they don’t understand.
Why Many Only See the Trump Jokes and Miss the Real Message
Let’s be honest: lots of people walked away angry at the Trump satire. They saw Trump in bed with Satan and dismissed the entire episode as left-wing propaganda.
What they missed is that South Park isn’t attacking Trump alone, it’s attacking the extremes. It’s saying that yes, we voted for Trump, but maybe the evangelistic zeal of MAGA went too far. Maybe the GOP’s flirtation with nationalist theocracy, like the Speaker claiming the Constitution doesn’t require separation of church and state, is just as dangerous as woke overreach.
That’s the point behind PC Principal becoming Power Christian Principal. By flipping from one form of ideological coercion to another, the show warns: extremes aren’t solutions, they’re just different prisons.
Woke Is Dead, and South Park Proved It
Woke culture started as a call to awareness. But it was hijacked and weaponized into a tool of control.
It became:
Censorship in the name of safety
Racism in the name of equity
Weakness in the name of compassion
Conformity in the name of inclusion
South Park didn’t just make fun of this, it held a mirror to it.
PC Principal didn’t disappear. He became something worse.
Cartman didn’t grow. He crashed.
Butters didn’t resist. He followed.
The message? If we keep letting power shift without pushing for real values, truth, merit, liberty, we’ll keep replacing one bully with another.
And that electric car scene? It proves something deeper: even the exit plan doesn’t work when you don’t understand the system you’re trapped in.
Why South Park Gets a Pass While Superman Gets Torched Before Takeoff
As South Park threw cultural grenades in every direction, at Trump, DEI, MAGA zealots, and religious overreach, audiences laughed, flinched, and surprisingly… let it happen. There were no mass calls to cancel Trey Parker and Matt Stone. No boycotts. No hashtags. Just stunned applause and viral clips.
But contrast that with what happened to Superman, a film that had barely even premiered before it was condemned. The moment it was announced that the reboot would include themes like kindness, empathy, and immigration, critics on the Right declared it “woke garbage.” The internet lit up with claims that Superman had been hijacked by progressives before anyone had even seen more than a few frames of footage.
Why the double standard?
Because we expect South Park to offend us. Its entire legacy is built on punching both directions and dragging every ideology into the mud. We trust that no one escapes unscathed. It’s honest, if irreverent.
But with Superman, we expect sincerity. We expect hope. And we expect our childhood heroes to steer clear of culture wars.
So when Superman dares to be kind or inclusive, some recoil, not necessarily because they hate those values, but because we’ve been trained to assume that sincerity now equals agenda. It’s a tragedy of our modern culture that irony earns trust, and virtue earns suspicion.
This cultural whiplash reveals something deeper: We want satire to expose lies, but we no longer trust stories to tell the truth. We accept brutal honesty from a cartoon, but panic when a caped hero preaches compassion.
Here’s the difference: South Park doesn’t pretend to be polite.
It’s not meant for families. It’s not designed to comfort anyone. It’s made to punch holes in lies, no matter who’s telling them. From Al Gore to Trump, from religion to identity politics, South Park goes after everyone.
That’s why it gets a pass. You expect it to offend. And because it offends everyone, people respect it, even when it stings.
But Superman? That’s different. He’s a symbol, an American icon. He’s supposed to be clean-cut, noble, and above politics. So when director James Gunn described Superman as “an immigrant who believes in kindness,” some people lost their minds.
No lectures. No gender-swapping. Just kindness. And that was enough to trigger a backlash.
It shows where we are. We don’t trust our heroes anymore, but we trust our satirists to tell us the truth. We’ve become a culture that laughs at honesty but shouts at virtue.
Cartman’s Breakdown Is a Warning That Outrage Culture Only Works Until the Mob Moves On: #GoRight with Peter Boykin Commentary
Let’s be honest. A lot of people didn’t see the episode’s brilliance because they got hung up on the jabs at Trump. Yes, the imagery of Trump in bed with Satan is jarring. But it’s also the point.
South Park isn’t picking sides. It’s calling out all sides. Including the evangelistic wing of MAGA. Including the Speaker of the House who recently claimed the Constitution doesn’t mandate separation of church and state. It’s satire, but it’s also a wake-up call.
Cartman’s breakdown wasn’t just funny, it was prophetic. When the world shifted from woke to not-woke, he didn’t celebrate. He cracked. Because he had nothing left to exploit. The outrage machine dried up. And that’s a mirror for a lot of so-called influencers who only know how to be victims or villains.
Even as someone who proudly founded Gays for Trump, I felt that cultural whiplash personally. I never needed rainbow flags in the office. But when they vanished along with DEI support, it felt like a trapdoor opened under us. Pride recognition was gone. The visibility that made us feel seen, even if it was corporate, disappeared. And I wondered: had we just been pushed back into the closet by a different kind of authoritarianism?
Because that’s what South Park showed us. Extremes beget extremes. First woke was forced. Then anti-woke became the new gospel. And the truth got lost somewhere in between.
We were told DEI conflicted with the Constitution. Maybe it did (well at least equity does). But we were never told what would replace it, and now that it’s gone, the flags are gone too. The conversations are gone. The dignity is gone. And no one seems to care.
We can’t keep living in a culture of whiplash. We can’t keep swinging from one extreme to another and calling it freedom. We need to get back to truth. Back to liberty. Back to common sense. And yes, back to Constitutional sanity.
Let South Park be rude. Let Superman be kind. Let us be brave enough to admit that both might be right in their own way.
We don’t need a theocracy or a virtue cult. We need a Constitutional Republic that actually respects all citizens, not just the loudest ones.
We don’t have to trade tyranny for tyranny.
We can reclaim what this country stood for:
Truth.
Common sense.
Responsibility.
Constitutional liberty.
We need merit, not identity checks. We need thinkers, not followers. We need respect for biology and free speech, not rules enforced by PR consultants.
We live in a Constitutional Republic, not an emotional echo chamber. The Bill of Rights protects liberty, not feelings.
So let me say it with clarity:
Men can’t give birth.
Silence is not violence.
Speech is not hate.
Comedy is not a crime.
Disagreement is not oppression.
We keep bending, they keep pushing. The more we apologize, the more they rewrite truth.
Let South Park be crude. Let Superman be noble. But let the rest of us be brave enough to be honest, even if it costs comfort, followers, or applause.
If we stay silent, the next wave won’t come draped in Gender Confusion Flags and Forced Pronouns, it’ll come in crosses, flags, or clipboards demanding your silence.
This isn’t a drill. This isn’t satire. This is the fight for the soul of a free nation.
It’s time to choose liberty over control.
Truth over tribes.
Right over easy.
It’s time to #GoRight.
Sources:
* South Park Season 27 premiere recap “Sermon on the ‘Mount” — Decider, Assigned Media
* Articles on Paramount deal, Comic-Con panel — USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter
* Coverage of Superman: Legacy backlash — Variety, CBR
* Personal statements from Gays for Trump and DEI commentary
From fiery satire to personal reflection, this article explores how South Park declared the death of woke culture, critiques missed messages in Trump jokes and reveals how extremes drown out real liberty, even among allies.
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