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It's funny because they tried to change "retarded" to "special needs" because people were using it as an insult. Now people call others "special needs" as an insult. There is no world where people don't use an adjective to describe mentally impaired people as an insult. Seems kind of pointless to try to police speech around it.
It's called the euphemism treadmill, and so many people don't realise it's a thing.
This episode basically commented on that phenomenon. Cartman loses the joy of living because there are no more "woke" people left for him to laugh at. I wish more people on the left understood that by constantly trying to control what everyone else is doing they are just creating things for the right to "resist" against. If people want to use a word in a context completely divorced from its original intent, just let them do it.
It's also been studied that the more we pay attention to race in society, the more likely people are to be racially discriminatory. Whether it's positive or negative, having race shoved into every aspect of our lives and every political dialogue is not healthy.