A short promotional clip from the episode, called White People Renovating Houses, shows a rally consisting of white people holding Confederate flags and chanting “you will not replace us” – one of the slogans chanted by white supremacists in Virginia. “Protesters armed with tiki torches and Confederate flags take to the streets of South Park,” the episode description reads, adding that the character Randy Marsh will “[come] to grips with what it means to be white in today’s society”. In an interview with ABC News last month, Parker and Stone said they had planned to have the new season steer clear of political satire, but the first episode of season 21 shows they can’t stay away for too long. We were really trying to make fun of what was going on [last season] but we couldn’t keep up. So we decided to just back off and let them do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”Season 21 of South Park premieres on Comedy Central at 10pm on Wednesday 13 September.

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2017 18:12 UTC