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Please don't parody regional accents to imply stupidity.

It’s a direct quote from an episode of South Park.

In the episode they aren’t making fun of a regional accent, they are making fun of an affected accent from certain classes. I’m from the area of Colorado where the episode takes place. There is no regional accent for Colorado.

Pretty confident it’s from South Park: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks

If I’m wrong I’ll accept that. If I’m right nope we learned a valuable lesson about making the worst assumptions about strangers in the internet.

I identified it as a South Park reference although the reference in question was parodying a country accent imo.

As someone who grew up in the country however, fuck em

Ah yes, South Park, a TV show known for its sensitivity towards difficult topics. Quoting someone else being douchy just means you're douchy and unoriginal, it doesn't make you not a douche simply because someone else said it and you're copying them. You're still choosing to say those things.

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