South Park, which returned this Wednesday night for its 22nd season premiere, has always managed to remain immune to the types of social media campaigns that have been waged against comedians like Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee. Will anything be different in this era of amplified outrage? The new episode, titled “Dead Kids,” went straight at America’s school shooting epidemic months after the Parkland, Florida shooting and #NeverAgain movement. In the opening scene, the kids are so used to active shooter drills that they don’t even register the presence of an actual gunman in South Park Elementary’s halls.
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