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I'm at work so ill put the quotes in later.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/...ntroversy/

Post: #2

Sad!

Post: #3

South Park were correct.

#cancelthesimpsons

Post: #4

Why didn't they write in that Apu was a burgeoning local business man opening and operating multiple businesses in the area leading to a significant rise in his wealth?

The fact that they caved is pathetic. They had an opportunity to agree and amplify and FAILED!

The show has been shit for years. I don't even bother watching anymore.

Post: #5

So..., I take it Apu does not identify as a gay man then...?

Post: #6

Pulling minorities out of the show? What about muh diversity?

This is why the ideas of left are unsustainable. They don't know what they want and contradict themselves all the time.

Post: #7

sigh. Time for Groening and (executive producer/showrunner Al) Jean to put the kibosh on it. Even American Dad is better at this point.

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(10-27-2018 08:24 PM)Mage Wrote:  Pulling minorities out of the show? What about muh diversity?

This is why the ideas of left are unsustainable. They don't know what they want and contradict themselves all the time.

When Lenin's Useful Idiots find dismay & discomfort in reality.
Fair bet the juvenile fools will always chase after fantasy.

Post: #9

RIP *pours out liquor for Apu*

Post: #10

Hmmm...

Post: #11

Quote: Producers of The Simpsons have announced that their long-running Indian character, Apu, will be written out of the show due to increased complaints that he reflects an insulting racial stereotype, NME reported.

The nearly 30-year-old animated sitcom has featured Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon as a wise-cracking, and sometimes clueless, father of eight children.

Apu first appeared in 1990, early in the series. But criticism has been mounting over the depiction of the character. With the character being a convenience store owner and sporting a heavy accent, it has been deemed a “racist” depiction of an Indian-American. People of Indian heritage have slammed the heavily accented cartoon character for reinforcing stereotypes they insist can lead to bullying and self-loathing.

The series has acknowledged that the character has become a problem. Indeed, The Simpsons did make a small attempt to wink and nod at the issue with the Apu character. In the April episode titled, “No Good Read Goes Unpunished,” one segment dealt with the stereotypes that were once accepted in society but have become problematic today.

In the episode, Lisa Simpson tells her mother, Marge, “Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?” As Lisa delivered the line, a framed photo of Apu is seen sitting on a bedstand next to her.

But now, that problem is about to disappear into thin air. And some are not happy with the plans.

Indie film producer and Indian-American Adi Shankar attempted to raise fan support for a Simpsons episode that would deal with the show’s “Apu problem.”

However, that idea is set to die, as Shankar has reported, “I’ve verified from multiple sources now: They’re going to drop the Apu character altogether. They aren’t going to make a big deal out of it, or anything like that, but they’ll drop him altogether just to avoid the controversy.”

Shankar, however, says the sudden disappearance of a near 30-year-old character is a mistake. “If you are a show about cultural commentary and you are too afraid to comment on the culture, especially when it’s a component of the culture you had a hand in creating, then you are a show about cowardice,” Shankar said.

Shankar concluded that just dropping the character without explanation is “a step backward” for race relations.

Some actors on the series have also expressed unease with the Apu character.

Only a few months ago, Hank Azaria, the actor who has voiced the character since its debut, announced that he would no longer provide Apu’s voice for the animated series.

During an April appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Azaia said he hoped producers of the series would make a change over the character.

“I’m perfectly willing and happy to step aside or help transition it into something new. I really hope that’s what The Simpsons does,” Azaria proclaimed.

Azaria added that if anyone was bullied because of Apu, he would be mortified. He said he only wanted to “spread laughter and joy with” the character.

“I’ve given this a lot of thought, and as I say my eyes have been opened,” Azaria exclaimed:

I think the most important thing is we have to listen to South Asian people, Indian people in this country, when they talk about what they feel and how they think about this character, and what their American experience of it has been … Listening to voices means inclusion in the writers’ room. I really want to see Indian, South Asian writers in the writers’ room, not in a token way, but genuinely informing whatever new direction this character may take, including how it is voiced or not voiced.

Comedian and Indian-American Hari Kondabolu, also recently expressed his distaste over the character with a documentary titled, The Problem With Apu. Kondabolu said that growing up as an Indian in the U.S., he was often made fun of by other children with the Apu catchphrase: “Thank you, come again.”

“Sure, growing up in New York City everyone tries to be funny. If you grow up there, you learn to make jokes and how to make comebacks, but it’s hard to counter an accent – what’s your comeback for an accent?,” Kondabolu told the BBC late last year.

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Post: #12

It's all because of this faggot Hari Kondabolu (he's on the right) and his crybaby documentary The Problem with Apu.



I'm a British-Indian and I thought Apu was hilarious. His portrayal is not unrealistic. I could walk into an Indian grocery store in Los Angeles today and find expired goods on the shelves or items with the expiry dates rubbed off.

I fucking hate Indian-Americans.

Outside of the Apu business, I think Simpson should have been cancelled a long time ago - it's been shit for at least 15years.

Post: #13

The thing about minority representation in media is that it has to be on SJW terms. Blacks can't at to white not stereotypically black. GLAAD wants more LBGT representation - 10℅ to be precise, more than double the representation in the general population - but are they cool with at least one-in-ten serial killers and other antagonists being openly gay?

Post: #14

(10-27-2018 09:33 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:  I'm a British-Indian and I thought Apu was hilarious. His portrayal is not unrealistic. I could walk into an Indian grocery store in Los Angeles today and find expired goods on the shelves or items with the expiry dates rubbed off.

Outside of the Apu business, I think Simpson should have been cancelled a long time ago - it's been shit for at least 15years.

I guess they're okay with Groundskeeper Willy, Fat Tony, Smithers, Cletus, and lots of other characters drawn from cultural stereotypes. And yeah, the show hasn't been truly good since season 9 or 10. So it's been shitty around twice as long as it was good.

Post: #15

IRTs fighting to make themselves less popular!

I wonder if the same IRT that has been stalking the RVF for years with multiple clone accounts, just made a bunch of sock puppet accounts and harassed The Simpsons creators until they wrote Apu out of the show?

Post: #16

Even with an ongoing show of 20 odd something years and fuck you money coming out of the ass, the Simpson team rolled over for a small minority of whining harpies and soyboys. This tells me the show reached a new degree of stale that's been growing for nearly two decades. Also relevant is the show creators are baby boomers. Their politics are outdated and public opinion holds more influence over them than it does over the new breed of Chads and shitlords. They have a baby boomer '90s mentality that prioritizes the bottom line by grabbing and appeasing the biggest audience they can over making quality work.

Post: #17

So I went to this Simpson's wiki webpage: Characters born in a different country

There's no end of racial stereotyping in the Simpson's.

Don't really get why Apu got the SJW treatment.

Post: #18

I guess everyone forgot about another Indian animated character that debuted more than 25 years before Apu. Hadji from Jonny Quest!

Post: #19

Sorry but every 7-11 within 500 miles of me is Indian owned and operated. Not to mention Dunkin Donuts. How is that a hurtful stereotype if it’s true?

Post: #20

(10-27-2018 11:16 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Sorry but every 7-11 within 500 miles of me is Indian owned and operated. Not to mention Dunkin Donuts. How is that a hurtful stereotype if it’s true?

Don't forget the Patel Hotel Cartel.

Post: #21

(10-27-2018 11:26 PM)scotian Wrote:  

(10-27-2018 11:16 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Sorry but every 7-11 within 500 miles of me is Indian owned and operated. Not to mention Dunkin Donuts. How is that a hurtful stereotype if it’s true?

Don't forget the Patel Hotel Cartel.

Bro ...the shitty little NJ neighborhood where I grew up had a local cockroach motel that was Indian owned. I went to school with their son ...and they’re name was Patel.

Later in life I had a high school friend that became a hooker and worked out of that place. Ironic.

Post: #22

The Simpsons last very good season was 8. 9 was very uneven but overall good quality, and 10, while overall fine, was where the decline in quality became obvious. I stopped watching after 11 and have only seen scattered episodes since.

So, after checking the dates, this means the show has been mediocre since 1999. I don't care if they make Apu into a fucking tranny.

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(10-28-2018 01:14 AM)stugatz Wrote:  I stopped watching after 11 and have only seen scattered episodes since.

Smart move. Season twelve had panda rape.

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^^ totally agree with the above. I didn’t know the seasons but late 90s is when I felt it lost its quality too. Mid 90s was the peak of the series.

Post: #25

(10-27-2018 11:16 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Sorry but every 7-11 within 500 miles of me is Indian owned and operated. Not to mention Dunkin Donuts. How is that a hurtful stereotype if it’s true?

The irony is that many of the people who whined about this have probably never set foot inside a convenience store and therefore don't realize the patently obvious fact you pointed out.