Lord of the Gingers

Marty Kaplan
HuffPost

Now that our nation has observed "Kick a Ginger Day" and "Kick a Jew Day," can "Kick a Liberal Day" be far behind?

In case you've been taking a tryptophan nap, a Los Angeles County sheriff's investigation has found that at least four redheaded girls and three redheaded boys at the A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas were assaulted on the Friday before Thanksgiving because they're "gingers."

In case you don't watch South Park, a ginger, according to the Fox Comedy Central cartoon show, is someone with red hair, freckles and fair skin. A 2005 episode -- a parody of the Children of the Corn horror movies based on a story by Stephen King -- substituted redheaded elementary school kids for the zombie teens in the original. Ginger kids are vile disgusting soulless monsters, and the earth should be rid of them: so says racist fat kid Eric Cartman in a presentation to his fourth-grade South Park class. If you think of Cartman as Archie Bunker on steroids, you can imagine how his hate speech could be obnoxious, instructive and funny all at once.

(More here.)