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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. Damon Linker‏Verified account @DamonLinker 12 Apr 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018
      Replying to @DamonLinker

      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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018
      Replying to @VoiceOfPrivileg @DamonLinker

      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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018
      Replying to @VoiceOfPrivileg @DamonLinker

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018
      Replying to @VoiceOfPrivileg @DamonLinker

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2018
          Replying to @VoiceOfPrivileg @DamonLinker

          But Dickens changed it because English Jews in 1830s complained.If they said nothing he wouldn't have changed. Should they have kept their mouth shut?

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