I have my experience from childhood, that ginger people were picked upon, long before South Park existed. Beating-up, I don’t recall. Name-calling, I do. But then, I went to schools that weren’t rough.
Not expecting my personal recall to be strong evidence to you.
Consider though the phrase “red headed stepchild”. That one is old, and its antiquity should be fairly strong evidence.
I have my experience from childhood, that ginger people were picked upon, long before South Park existed. Beating-up, I don’t recall. Name-calling, I do. But then, I went to schools that weren’t rough.
Not expecting my personal recall to be strong evidence to you.
Consider though the phrase “red headed stepchild”. That one is old, and its antiquity should be fairly strong evidence.