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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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 listen to people younger than me and if they have a cogent argument (as the anti-Apu kids do) I change my mind. I haven't heard anything from alt-right that strikes me as cogent.
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There age matters because they had experiences that I didn't have (being kids when Simpson was on). If you think that's an "identity game" then you are an imbecile.
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Dickens creates Fagin the Jew & Fagin was used as a slur against Jews. That was partly because of pre-existing anti-Semitism but Dickens also fed into it and made it worse. Jews at the time quite properly complained.
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Jews of the 1830s disagreed with that & lobbied Dickens to soften Oliver Twist. He did so and also, in response to protests, added more positive Jewish characters in later work. Was he wrong to do so?
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