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foot on necks/and i'm taking bets. Co-host, @NPRCodeSwitch. Correspondent, @NPR.

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    1. Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 9 Apr 2018

      “The Simpsons” and fanboy response to #TheProblemWithApu is like the call-center script for these convos. The logic goes: “Racists are monsters and I am not a monster. And since I produce/consume this cultural object, that object therefore can’t be racist.”

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    2. Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 9 Apr 2018

      The other hoary response here is that “there are bigger fish to fry.” (I challenge you to find someone from Unseasoned Fried Fish Twitter who ever volunteers or identifies what those other, bigger fish might look like.)

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    3. Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 9 Apr 2018

      But the transitive magic works the other way: “If I consume Cultural Object X and if people are saying Cultural Object X is racist then that means they think *I* am racist.” it’s helpful to understand these convos as less abt Apu or Chief Wahoo but abt defending one’s innocence.

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    4. Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 9 Apr 2018

      And so now, the very thoughtful and nuanced thoughts of desi folks who grew up with complicated relationships to Apu/The Simpsons becomes a tired, dumb argument about “political correctness run amok” + defending the honor of the denizens of that show’s alabaster writers room.

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    5. Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 9 Apr 2018

      Last thing: if you ever want to understand why the so-called “bigger fish” of American racism remain such unfried, intractable problems, look at just how deeply, personally invested folks are in DEFENDING A CARTOON CHARACTER FROM RECONSIDERATION.

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    6. Samuel Vee‏ @samuelvee451 10 Apr 2018
      Replying to @GeeDee215

      It's not about defending a cartoon character, it's about the fact that in the quest for justice, activists act like calling themselves oppressed underdogs is sufficient to declare everything their eminent domain, and everyone else the problem. It's lazy, self-serving framing.

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      Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 10 Apr 2018
      Replying to @samuelvee451 @samuelthefifth

      who are the "activists" here that you're inveighing against? the convo that kiced off this whole furor was held amongst a bunch of people who grew up with the Simpsons and who expressed a continuum of feelings/frustrations abt Apu.

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        2. Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 10 Apr 2018
          Replying to @GeeDee215 @samuelthefifth

          and as they said, their frustrations are shaped by the many ways that people from their communities have been portrayed in popular culture. (Apu is a broad brownface caricature that Hank Azaria himself said is based on ANOTHER broad brownface caricature played by Peter Sellers. )

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        3. Vaxton P. Hartnabrig.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 10 Apr 2018
          Replying to @GeeDee215 @samuelthefifth

          what you're asking for, then, is for people who have a COMPLETELY different set of experiences around these representations --- a bunch of them said that their childhood bullies directly invoked Apu --- to feel the way abt the this character and that broader context that YOU do.

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