Up to ‘Simpsons’ creators to handle Apu criticism: Fox exec

Associated Press ^ | August 3, 2018

[ConservativeStatement]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Creators of “The Simpsons” have the freedom to handle the show’s 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.”

[ConservativeStatement]

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?

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Apu is absolutely beloved by both the Simpsons characters and their true fans.

The whole thing is white liberals being racist as usual.

[DJ Frisat]

Snore. It's a freakin' satirical cartoon show.

Libs and snowflakes -- but I repeat myself -- destroy everything they wrap their 3 brain cells around...

[VTenigma]

More suppression of enjoyment from the eternally offended PC commies.

[Joe 6-pack]

And yet, still no criticism for Biden and Hillary’s stereotyping of Indian shopkeepers and sevice workers....

[50sDad]

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.

[BBQToadRibs]

Seems pretty late to the party to start criticizing Apu. He’s been there since 1990.

[ConservativeStatement]

Bill’s wife: “He ran a gas station down in St. Louis.”

[MIchaelTArchangel]

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.

[jimfree]

"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.

[caddie]

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.

[yesthatjallen]

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.

[heterosupremacist]

[Rurudyne]

With Martin St. Skittles as his wingman.

[Trump20162020]

"...has come under fire as racist and stereotypical."

From how many people, really?

Sounds like a loud, microscopically-tiny minority.

[Sans-Culotte]

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?

[rockrr]

Proof again that leftists ruin everything they touch - even their own creations...

[hirn_man]

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.

[dfwgator]

The real reason they hate Apu.



He supports the 2nd Amendment.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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?