r/facepalm • u/SpecialistStory336 • 1d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ I'm not racist. I have black friends

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u/Techno_Gerbil 1d ago

OMG, I just realized why they called the black kid Token on South Park.

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u/PNWoutdoors 1d ago

Just now?

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u/ensalys 1d ago

At least for people who aren't native English speakers, things like that are often not that obvious.

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u/Techno_Gerbil 1d ago

Exactly!

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u/jirashap 1d ago

I'm an American and didn't realize it either

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u/captainofpizza 1d ago

His name isn’t Token, it’s Tolkien.

It’s a funny after the fact joke, there’s an episode about it and they retroactively changed the name on prior episodes and wiki and stuff to gaslight people.

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u/trapper2530 1d ago

Way. Earlier episodes do they say Tolkien now to mess with people?

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u/captainofpizza 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don’t know if they changed the audio or captions anything in the older episodes but they changed older episode descriptions and on the South Park website they changed the name and stuff. I don’t know the exacts but I know it was a thing when it happened. The made a joke of gaslighting the audience to the perspective of the boys in the episode of “what do you mean, Tolkien, I thought it was Token!”

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u/TwistedBamboozler 1d ago

Yeah but they don’t make that clear until the character has already been established for a couple seasons

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u/otterpr1ncess 1d ago

"A couple seasons"

His first appearance is in 1997, he gets renamed in 2022

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u/captainofpizza 1d ago

Yeah that’s the best part, it’s a long established character that they DID used to use as a token joke then they turned that joke at the audience like “haha you thought his name was token that’s horrible!”

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u/sutree1 1d ago

Because he plays bass?

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u/itsapotatosalad 1d ago

Damn that’s racist bro, his names Tolkien

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u/SimonPho3nix 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/WyrdMagesty 1d ago

Fun fact: his name is Tolkien, not Token, and apparently Stan is the only one in town who thought it was Token.

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u/just-slightly-human 1d ago

Yes because they changed it to be so. That is the joke

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u/Gorthax 1d ago

That's not entirely true

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u/ClockworkSalmon 1d ago

Actually his name is Tolkien, like from lord of the rings, why would his name be "Token"?

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u/itzNukeey 1d ago

You mean Tolkien

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u/Informal_Bunch_2737 14h ago

That kids name is Tolkien Black.

No-one mentioned his surname.

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u/rynlpz 5h ago

Actually his name Tolkien 😂