Everybody’s talking about South Park. Why? South Park opened its new season taking a big swing at Trump—earning praise from the left and pushback from the right. For their next episode, the show is teasing a Cartman parody of Charlie Kirk. But here’s the twist: Kirk isn’t mad. He says conservatives should be able to take a joke. Satire is messy. It’s supposed to be. Whether it lands or flops, its purpose isn’t just to make us laugh, it’s to make us uncomfortable. To question power, call out contradictions, challenge our biases, and hold a mirror up to culture. The problem is, we often only celebrate that discomfort when it’s aimed at someone else. When satire targets the “other side,” it’s brave. When it targets us or someone we support, it’s suddenly “unfunny” or “irrelevant.” But real satire doesn’t take sides. It stirs the pot no matter who’s in charge. You don’t have to love South Park to recognize the deeper question here: Are we okay with critique when it’s aimed in our dire...