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Up to ‘Simpsons’ creators to handle Apu criticism: Fox exec
Associated Press ^
| August 3, 2018
Posted on 08/03/2018 5:33:00 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Creators of The Simpsons have the freedom to handle the shows depiction of Indian shop owner Apu in the right way for their show, a top Fox executive said Thursday.
Apu, the Kwik-E-Mart clerk who has sold expired food and ripped off customers in the long-running animated Fox series, has come under fire as racist and stereotypical. The criticism flared after the recent release of the documentary The Trouble with Apu.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: apu; hollywood; indianamericans; simpsons; tv
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I haven't watched the Simpsons in years. Didn't one episode calm Lisa who was worried she'd incorporate her father's genes only to learn that the women in the family were all intelligent while the males were dolts?
To: ConservativeStatement
Apu is absolutely beloved by both the Simpsons characters and their true fans.
The whole thing is white liberals being racist as usual.
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:38:14 AM PDT
by
PittsburghAfterDark
(The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Snore. It's a freakin' satirical cartoon show.
Libs and snowflakes -- but I repeat myself -- destroy everything they wrap their 3 brain cells around...
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:38:40 AM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
To: ConservativeStatement
More suppression of enjoyment from the eternally offended PC commies.
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:39:22 AM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: ConservativeStatement
And yet, still no criticism for Biden and Hillary’s stereotyping of Indian shopkeepers and sevice workers....
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:41:35 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: VTenigma
Apu is the hardest working man on a show where most men are lady idiots. But OK...I propose we do what South Park did...kill him off. There you go. Everybody’s happy.
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:42:35 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
To: ConservativeStatement
Seems pretty late to the party to start criticizing Apu. He’s been there since 1990.
To: Joe 6-pack
Bill’s wife: “He ran a gas station down in St. Louis.
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:45:05 AM PDT
by
ConservativeStatement
("denial, disrespect, disdain and disassociation...")
To: 50sDad
Kill off Apu!? Well, I suppose he can die in a robbery of his store. Calling Michael Brown. Calling Michael Brown. Perhaps the writers can have the character who guns down Apu Michael Ferguson Brown.
To: ConservativeStatement
"In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
Joe Biden - captured on C-SPAN's "Road to the White House" series.
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:52:15 AM PDT
by
jimfree
(My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Apu is well liked. He is in the barbershop quartet The B Sharps with Homer and other characters.
He is usually portrayed in a good light. Just like the other characters.
Sometimes he is portrayed as a ridiculous hypocrite with often stereotypical faults.
The whole show (just like any other sit com, beginning with the shows of the Commedia dell'Arte in Renaissance Italy) involves recurring characters alternately being portrayed as sympathetic or idiots deserving ridicule.
Grow up libtards. Read history. Read literature. Think.
Then, shut up.
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:52:37 AM PDT
by
caddie
(Tagline: Tag, you're it.)
To: ConservativeStatement
EVERY character on the Simpsons is a stereotype' from mobster Fat Tony to the crazy Cat Lady to senile Grampa Simpson. The Simpsons airs in India.
Was there ever any outrage?
No. People recognized aspects of themselves and chuckled.
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:57:13 AM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
With Martin St. Skittles as his wingman.
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posted on
08/03/2018 5:58:25 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: ConservativeStatement
"
...has come under fire as racist and stereotypical."
From how many people, really?
Sounds like a loud, microscopically-tiny minority.
To: ConservativeStatement
I haven't watched the Simpsons in years.Me, neither, but it's been on forever. It must be popular. Why change something that's popular?
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posted on
08/03/2018 6:08:51 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: ConservativeStatement
Proof again that leftists ruin everything they touch - even their own creations...
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posted on
08/03/2018 6:43:13 AM PDT
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: DJ Frisat
Hank Azaria is also the voice of Cletus the slack jaw yokel. That character is 100 times more offensive than Apu, yet not a peep from anyone.
People need to get a life and stop complaining about cartoon characters.
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posted on
08/03/2018 6:45:08 AM PDT
by
hirn_man
To: heterosupremacist
The real reason they hate Apu.
He supports the 2nd Amendment.
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posted on
08/03/2018 6:45:14 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ConservativeStatement
Apu, the Kwik-E-Mart clerk who has sold expired food and ripped off customers in the long-running animated Fox series, has come under fire as racist and stereotypical.
Mostly by white liberals (and one Indian comedian who wasn't successful at stand-up and apparently decided to become an SJW as a career alternative). Why is it that white liberals spend more time being outraged on behalf of minorities than the minorities do themselves?
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