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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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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