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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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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...no.
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The challenge here is that a lot of sociological comedy depends on the concept of what you might call the "friendly stereotype" -- a charming exaggeration of a particular identity or type.
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So if you purge a figure like Apu -- quite likeable, certainly no more egregious than the other stereotypes on the show -- you end up with less representation in the end. And if you "correct" him he's just boring.
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I suspect if you were talking to people younger than you who inclined to the far right, you wouldn't be as indulgent. But wouldn't that, by your implied definition, nonetheless make you "an asshole" for failing to "listen to people younger" than you?
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I doubt many of those yong on far right on this issue would be from India. Difference is listening to people w/ something at stake in debate.
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If you can’t tell people they are wrong I don’t care how much you listen.
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This reminds me how the debate about the Redskins team name got crushed when the
@washingtonpost came out with the article showing that MOST Native Americans did not find the name offensive. -
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