“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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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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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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