Posted on 04/09/2018 1:40:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Yeah exactly.
LOL. She’ll probably accuse Mr. Burns.
They shouldn’t have admitted they were Republicans. 8>)
No actual Indians were offended....
Meet the new Puritans, they don’t want to have any fun either.
The Simpsons has decades of good humor and creativity and, what I have always loved most about it, fully development characters who are both good and bad, like we all are. Apu too.
I’m not some Simpson super-fan so I can’t cite chapter and verse of Apu’s story archs or whatever. Maybe someone can. But I am sure he is about as real as a cartoon person can be, as much as Bart and Lisa and Mr. Burns and Ned Flanders and all the rest.
What really, really bothers me is that we are supposed to just jettison anything and everything just because it bothers this person, that person or A MILLION persons.
These are jokes people, if you are getting bent out of shape about the portrayal of some immigrant Indian shopkeeper in a TV Cartoon show and you are over the age of 21 you really need to get a life.
Please find a way to help someone, there are millions of people who need real help and could use yours. Find them, help them. But please leave those of us who are managing on our own alone.
I think it’s great. Matt Groening and most of the people working on the Simpsons are enormous Liberal D-bags, so it’s nice to see the Left eating their own.
Pity the folks running FOX News aren’t as b@llsy....
Apu’s voice seems to be based on Peter Sellers’ “Indian” characters. I wonder if Jews should complain about Krusty the Clown? He’s a compendium of negative Jewish stereotypes. Tablet magazine called the character a walking Blood Libel.
Part of the problem is that Apu is voiced by Hank Azaria, who is brilliant, but also pretty damn white. So you’ve got the whole white-casting thing. Most Simpsons characters are bad stereotypes, that’s their stock in trade. Apu happened to become kind of a flagship bad stereotype though, as somebody else pointed out his name has actually become an insult in Indian communities, basically their version of Uncle Tom. Then there was the documentary last year. Really the core problem here is that bit basically admitted the documentary was right, and then declared they weren’t going to do anything about it.
Well the same seven or so white actors voice all the characters pretty much. Including the black Dr. Hibbert. The name Apu comes from the great Indian film director Satyajit Ray’s “Apu Trilogy”. Perhaps the most respected Indian films of all time.
“The reason there’s no controversy is because Homer is NOT stereotypical of white men.”
You’re right. Cletus Spuckler is supposed to be the stereotypical white man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de-_UJJ19T0
And they’ve successfully made the name a slur in the country. Quite the achievement honestly. They’d have been better off ignoring it. Everybody knows Apu is a bit of a problem character, they’ve discussed it out of show, even worked it a bit in show. But acknowledging something then declaring they’re not going to do anything about something is pretty much always the worst move.
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