1. I'll add one thing to the great Apu debate: until recently I was also an Desi who didn't mind Apu. I've changed, largely because I've started listening to people younger than me. https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/984418135632760832 …
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3. I've been pretty indulgent towards Apu because I saw him as an affectionately intended character (as against, say, Peter Sellers in The Party,which I loathed when I saw it as a kid).
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4. I think the big difference between me and many Desi who dislike Apu is generational. I was already an adult when Simpson appeared. They are more likely to have been kids in school.
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5. As an adult, The Simpsons was something in background to me. For younger Desi in school, Apu was a taunt they heard in school. Big difference.
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6. If I wanted to, I could easily write one of those anti-PC articles: "Hey, I was born in India, I don't mind Apu." But I won't because I'm not an asshole and I'm willing to listen to people younger than me.
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7. There's a larger lesson in this: in these PC controversies it's important not to be knee-jerk and to listen to people who have different experience of a work of art than you -- to figure out where it comes from.
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@SopanDeb I've just realized that what I loved was the deep knowledge of Indian culture they could weave in, but now realize it was worse to have that awareness and still rely on the stereotype. Lazy is worse than ignorant.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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