The Problem With South Park's Equal Opportunity Offensiveness

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Seth McFarland is the very problem that Sarah points out, which it seems as if he never gets out of his perspective of being sort of a white male. The jokes are generally about like stereotypes from how we white males perceive marginalized groups and not the other way around. It often seems like the only right that people who insist on saying Kant and nigger are in danger of losing is their right to be an asshole.

Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil , racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .

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