A lack of empathy, imagination and also understanding of politics. They take a skewed version of reality (that they almost definitely saw secondhand in sensationalized or outright fabricated sources), find out what enrages them (blue haired, art major, LGBT, communist, radlib, coastal elite, anarchist, etc) and mashes them together. It’s how you get the famous JBP “Postmodern Neomarxists” despite PoMo and Marxism being incompatible, they’re 2 types of students that he dislikes that he has fused together in his leaky, smooth brain. The homunculus of a “liberal leftist” will then also contain traits that aren’t necessarily from a same sort of person, it’s a smorgasbord of everything they dislike, irrespective of whether it creates a coherent person or not. Daily Wire, Prager et al will invent a blue haired liberal communist who’s a barista but also a coastal elite who identifies as an anarchist and has a bust of Lenin in her home, and is in an interracial relationship. And said liberal communist will suffer misfortune and that would be the joke. And that’s the “good” stuff. Sometimes the joke is that Crowder dresses up with a rice farmer hat, buck teeth and do a Chinese accent and that’s just the whole joke, or an “Indian Gangster” which is just him saying AAVE in an Indian accent (this is a real bit, but don’t look it up, it’s terrible). This is what reactionaries generally have on offer.
Even the reactionary creators of South Park have done enough LSD/Magic Mushrooms over the years to develop a base level of empathy, so they manage to pump out some decent takes every season or so. They can create a half accurate facsimile of whatever they’re making fun of that way. But also, even if they’re making fun of X liberal thing, ultimately the one who suffers is Cartman, who doesn’t give a single shit about X and end up failing. In the gender neutral bathroom episode, the villain (unlike most right wing media) is not the trans person or the PC establishment, but it’s Cartman, who starts pretending to be trans to get a private bathroom all for himself.
Similarly, in the Tourette Syndrome episode, some people with TS are the surface level jokes, but the antagonist is actively Cartman, who pretends to have Tourette to get away with swearing at school. Still problematic episode, but imagine if Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder tried to write it. Cartman would be the protagonist. This is what reactionaries would make with an ounce of empathy for the marginalized or “the other”. It’s exceedingly rare.
The centrist liberals do this, too, making fun of right wingers as if they’re just inbred hicks and not like small business owning suburbanites. But they normally overlap and therefore get overshadowed by actually good content, so they’re not as prominent.
A lack of empathy, imagination and also understanding of politics. They take a skewed version of reality (that they almost definitely saw secondhand in sensationalized or outright fabricated sources), find out what enrages them (blue haired, art major, LGBT, communist, radlib, coastal elite, anarchist, etc) and mashes them together. It’s how you get the famous JBP “Postmodern Neomarxists” despite PoMo and Marxism being incompatible, they’re 2 types of students that he dislikes that he has fused together in his leaky, smooth brain. The homunculus of a “liberal leftist” will then also contain traits that aren’t necessarily from a same sort of person, it’s a smorgasbord of everything they dislike, irrespective of whether it creates a coherent person or not. Daily Wire, Prager et al will invent a blue haired liberal communist who’s a barista but also a coastal elite who identifies as an anarchist and has a bust of Lenin in her home, and is in an interracial relationship. And said liberal communist will suffer misfortune and that would be the joke. And that’s the “good” stuff. Sometimes the joke is that Crowder dresses up with a rice farmer hat, buck teeth and do a Chinese accent and that’s just the whole joke, or an “Indian Gangster” which is just him saying AAVE in an Indian accent (this is a real bit, but don’t look it up, it’s terrible). This is what reactionaries generally have on offer.
Even the reactionary creators of South Park have done enough LSD/Magic Mushrooms over the years to develop a base level of empathy, so they manage to pump out some decent takes every season or so. They can create a half accurate facsimile of whatever they’re making fun of that way. But also, even if they’re making fun of X liberal thing, ultimately the one who suffers is Cartman, who doesn’t give a single shit about X and end up failing. In the gender neutral bathroom episode, the villain (unlike most right wing media) is not the trans person or the PC establishment, but it’s Cartman, who starts pretending to be trans to get a private bathroom all for himself. Similarly, in the Tourette Syndrome episode, some people with TS are the surface level jokes, but the antagonist is actively Cartman, who pretends to have Tourette to get away with swearing at school. Still problematic episode, but imagine if Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder tried to write it. Cartman would be the protagonist. This is what reactionaries would make with an ounce of empathy for the marginalized or “the other”. It’s exceedingly rare.
The centrist liberals do this, too, making fun of right wingers as if they’re just inbred hicks and not like small business owning suburbanites. But they normally overlap and therefore get overshadowed by actually good content, so they’re not as prominent.
Finally, here’s a Doctor Mister Cody video addressing similar stuff for an hour