Quote Originally Posted by Aspen and Misty
I can't believe that this is being brushed off as "just normal". A man has DIED, his family is in MOURING and there is a television show publicly humiliating him. You all may think of Steve as "just a television star" but that is not all this man is. He is a FATHER, a HUSBAND, a SON, a FAMILY MEMBER. He is not just a man on T.V. he is a living breathing person with a family that cares about him and that is currently mourning loosening him. Do you all forget Bindi, Bob and Terri so easily?? Do those children’s faces and the face of his heartbroken wife escape your minds so quickly? Can you imagine if your father died and someone made of funny of him for his death and the thing the he devoted his life to? Can you imagine how upset you would be? If any of you have ever lost someone close to you, you know how much this would devastate you. And no, just because he was a television star does not mean he deserves this, this kind of action does NOT come with being a Television star. There used to be such a thing as morals, kindness and caring about other people. Or is our world so corrupt that we have all forgotten this?

To me, if this really is the “normal” or if everyone considers publicly making fun a man who died while his family is still grieving ok then we need to stop, take a step back and rethink where the world is going. I feel that we already live in a world that widely does not care about the other people. I'm so glad that our public television is promoting this way of thinking.

Ashley
I agree with you 100%. As I posted before, I just don't get Southpark so don't watch it anyway, but, as some people said about not watching it if you don't like it, just because I don't watch it doesn't mean it doesn't bother me. Of course as some have said there's a difference between reality and fictional tv programmes, but I'm sure it doesn't make it any less hurtful to Steve's family and those who knew him well.

It's not just Steve who is, yes, I'll use the word 'discriminated' against, but other people too. I'm sure everyone knows how Jews have been portrayed on the show.

I'm sure if Southpark had made an episode of pitbull-figthing, which I would put money on that it will be made someday, then we'd have had a very different reaction. Just from my own point of view.