I want to be surprised by this but I’m not. Facebook is the same entity that allows white supremacists to go on their merry way on their pages but will shut down Black people who comment on racism. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they were made aware of the scam and did nothing. I’m sure they knew good and goddamn…

Wow, another craven White person profiting off of Black pain. Same as it ever was.

Qualifying his rape as “bad” but his cheating as “really bad” is minimizing his childhood trauma. We only have his perspective, and yet Liza is immediately reducing his rape to something less than whatever perceived effect she believes the women felt.

Now Carmen Maria Machado is going off on him on Twitter. A friend wrote Diaz’s name in the comments, mentioning Carmen herself had a “harrowing” encounter with him when she was in grad school.

The one I’m close with was a grad student, and the other one says she was an undergrad. The undergrad one is just yuck to me. She says he followed a couple students to a bar and told her that her ass was too nice for a white girl.

Groundskeeper Willy ring a bell or nah? Or do you just pick and choose what you find offensive? You’ve never faked an accent for any reason at all? Watch where you’re throwing those stones from that glass house kiddo.

The difference between Apu and most of the other stereotypes on the show is representation.

Going there. Emmett Till’s murder was in 1955, the woman who accused him of whistling at her is still alive and only last year admitted that she lied (2017). Six decades, times may change but just because something became an issue in your world does not mean it wasn’t an issue nor won’t continue being an issue in the…

It’s different when Indian-Americans or kids who look even remotely brown get bullied by being called Apu, having their accents mocked, and so on. The problem is Apu is built on a stereotype, and a racist one at that, and for a long time he was middle America’s only exposure to that kind of character. While it’s not…

I’m Latino. I think the Spanish bee keeper dude is funny as fuck. I have a life. I have a sense of humor. You should get both.

I hope that the Trouble with Apu gains way more traction because of this. I honestly think that Hari was still being too kind to those involved with the Simpsons. So, seeing this as their response is bullshit.

Don’t women who are victims of horrific childhood trauma also hurt others in the course of their healing? I would venture to say that most abusive mothers are reacting to childhood trauma.

Well, she feels ‘bad’ for him (raped as an 8 year-old) and ‘really bad’ for the adult women he cheated on, which pretty much tells you which one she feels was worse.

Race-based self reflection / meaningful self awareness is something too many white progressives simply don’t have the capacity for. The Simpsons (almost entirely) white male writing room’s response to the Trouble with Apu is only a prominent example of this.

Such a huge fail on all levels. And really, you’re going to use Lisa to make this point? She would be the one holding the rally against the racist character if they cared character continuity.

Cheating on someone is not abusing them. It’s just not. Stop.

As Jenny Yang tweeted...

What is this bullshit? He cheated on girlfriends before getting therapy as a result of serious trauma. Did you read the piece? Why are you sitting here assuming feelings on behalf of his past partners when he is talking about suicide attempts and extreme fear of intimacy as a result of CHILD RAPE?

Are you really comparing getting raped as a child to being cheated on as an adult?

Why qualify this statement? It reads as though your response to this is “I feel bad for the 8 year-old boy, but worse for the adult women he later dated.” Yes, he cheated - but it does not sound like he raped anyone, so why qualify what sounds like a deeply traumatizing and lasting issue he bottled up as being lesser…