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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018

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      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018

      2. Cards on the table: born in india, family of immigrants (to Canada but also England, Fiji, USA & all over), parent's ran a small convenience store, fan of classics Simpsons (by which I mean the Tracey Ullman shorts)

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018

      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. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Apr 2018
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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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018
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      Right, that's exactly how I think Apu was intended and how I personally interpreted him -- as a "friendly stereotype." But children of immigrants who were born in USA experienced him differently.

      6:48 AM - 12 Apr 2018
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        2. Erica Ifill‏Verified account @wickdchiq 13 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          Yes. As a child of immigrants the bigotry underlying taunting was then reinforced by a cultural juggernaut that underworte the validity of the taunting thereby castigating the victim of taunting.

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        3. Erica Ifill‏Verified account @wickdchiq 13 Apr 2018
          Replying to @wickdchiq @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

          You are the "other" because your parents weren't born in the country of your birth but also because you cannot participate in pop culture with the reckless abandon of other kids

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