How y’all feel about the problem with Apu?

[get these nets]

Aight Daniel Snyder you got it.

hehehhe
I mentioned this in the "wacka flocka...I'm not Black.....I'm native American" thread.

The Washington football team controversy is a fight for native american descent people, not me.

In 2011, the Cherokee Nation made the decision to remove Black members from their membership list. It was an issue about who gets certain benefits,etc. It was well within the rights of that organization to use whatever criteria they wanted to determine membership.

Spoiler: chickens coming home to roost only made me glad

However,not ONE other Native American Nation issued a statement criticizing the move, no press conferences...no articles about the history of Africans within Native tribes or anything. I think a high court forced the Cherokees to add the members back, so it was resolved some way somehow.

Again, somebody can prove me wrong and show what kind of public criticism from leadership of the other Nations was made over the move to expel the Blacks. Until then, not standing up for people who won't stand up for Blacks.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

I know I’m late. I’ve just seen this documentary. I feel like what’s needed to be said has already been posted in here. I’m not Indian so it’s not my place to tell another minority how they should feel when it comes to their portrayal on TV. Then again, Indians are racist as fukk and rarely address their anti-black culture.

I feel the creator of this documentary did this more so out of self promotion than anything. Has it set out to create a discourse about minority representation on tv? Yes, however, in this Trump climate, he probably chose the worse time to release it.

Tl:dr: this was more self promotion than anything.

 

[BaltimoreTwilightMarauder]

Stereotypes are funny, no one complains about the rednecks on the show or groundskeeper willie.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Stereotypes are funny, no one complains about the rednecks on the show or groundskeeper willie.

Hold on now...

 

[Let A Fro Be A Fro]

So they're offended because he's a small business owner with an accent?

 

[Gold]

Stereotypes are funny, no one complains about the rednecks on the show or groundskeeper willie.

What are you trying to say?

 

[BaltimoreTwilightMarauder]

What are you trying to say?

I'm saying that in a comedy show its ok to make fun of sterotype and that sensitive bytch asses are just in their feelings. Pretty simple. I'd tell anyone triggered by the Redneck and Scottish characters to shut up so I've gotta keep the same energy when it comes to the indians.

 

[Gold]

I'm saying that in a comedy show its ok to make fun of sterotype and that sensitive bytch asses are just in their feelings. Pretty simple. I'd tell anyone triggered by the Redneck and Scottish characters to shut up so I've gotta keep the same energy when it comes to the indians.

You got the same energy when it comes to black people?

Shut up and laugh at the cac telling watermelon and chicken jokes

 

[BaltimoreTwilightMarauder]

You got the same energy when it comes to black people?

Shut up and laugh at the cac telling watermelon and chicken jokes

So are YOU ok with the sterotypical redneck and Scottish characters? If you are you're a sensitive hypocrite if you arent also ok with black stereotype jokes. that's how logic works bud.

 

[Gold]

So are YOU ok with the sterotypical redneck and Scottish characters? If you are you're a sensitive hypocrite if you arent also ok with black stereotype jokes. that's how logic works bud.

I'm apathetic towards, read my posts throughout this thread... bud.
Its not my fight so i'm not going to get mad at an Indian for not liking Indian stereotypes.

You, on the otherhand, are talking about going at people telling them to shut up for being offended. You see the difference?

We aren't the same.

 

[Geek Nasty]

No problem with them being offended by it, but this is real low of the racist totem pole.

Now, they had a case with Gunga Din

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I want to note that White male characters on the Simpsons included:

Moronic, uncontrolled, and often immoral lead father
Bratty and uncontrolled lead son
Evil rich boss
Barely closeted sniveling lackey
Fat sloppy drunk
Pathetic and somewhat sleazy bar owner
Local bully
Fat sloppy nerdy incel
Hypocritical and milquetoast preacher
General pathetic and incompetent chief of police
TV infomercial scam guy
Quack doctor
Corrupt mayor
Mobster
Evil clown (in addition to barely tolerable and morally ambiguous clown)


I think in comparison to the White men on the show, Apu would certainly come out in the upper half and probably in the upper 10-20%.

this is the type of shyt when being PC is going too far. character is older than half the bleeding heart PC police blogging/tweeting about it. like gtfoh, wanna be offended by a 30 year old character. he's an indian that owns a convenience store...are they mad he wasn't an IT worker? is making a honest living OWNING a damn store embarassing or some shyt?

they've never been crazy disrespectful to the indian culture via him. they make their jokes as the simpsons do, but otherwise, he's an integral character whose nationality isn't near being at the forefront of most his storylines.

And when it is in the front it's been respectful. The only episode I remember that was totally focused around Apu was when he got an arranged marriage, and IIRC they portrayed both the good and the bad of that without being offensive or disrespectful.

Overall Apu was a praiseworthy character, far more so than most of the White men on the show. How many other shows in the 1990s had a praiseworthy Indian character?

The issue wasn't Apu. The issue was Apu being the only Indian character on television.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I'm saying that in a comedy show its ok to make fun of sterotype and that sensitive bytch asses are just in their feelings. Pretty simple. I'd tell anyone triggered by the Redneck and Scottish characters to shut up so I've gotta keep the same energy when it comes to the indians.

Yeah if Apu had gotten that sort of treatment they would have had a fukking case on their hands.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I'm saying tho this is really a thing

At first I thought OP was just taking it upon himself to ask how we felt about Apu but people are legit offended by him as a character 3 decades later

I said this in 2018, but I'd actually like to take this back.

IMO 3 decades is certainly enough time for a whole new generation of Indians to exist having no connection to The Simpsons regardless of how much I love this show.

If a certain group of people have deemed something offensive enough to them to want it to be removed, who am I to say they're wrong and I can't allow my bias to affect my objectivity