“Your cartoon hurt my feelings” is not criticism.

This is now the twelfth article I’ve seen demonizing Al Jean, not to mention the thousands of comments and tweets calling for his head. This is precisely a modern outrage lynch mob.

I am straight up referring to the episode in which Lisa doesn’t want a classic story changed for PC reasons. Commenters are saying she would not take this stance and would want the story changed. Given everything we know about her—granted I haven’t watched for ten years—she would not want that.

“Won’t someone think of the children.” -Progressive Film Critics/Christian Housewives circa 1987.

How the fuck am I doing that? I’m saying if an honest to god Nazi was invited to speak on campus, even HE would have the right to speak. Would you have it otherwise? Would you crack his skull, hurt a professor, set buildings on fire, and give him the moral upper hand by violating his rights? Idiot. The Supreme Court…

Tell that to the woman with a permanently damaged neck from Middlebury.

Per the ACLU, speakers invited to campus have the right to speak. The audience has the right to listen. Protesting is fine, setting fires, pulling fire alarms, hurting professors, and cracking skulls is not. Miss me with your denialist bullshit, you wilfully blind illiberal cunt. You refuse to denounce these…

I didn’t call it pathetic, I called it part of the broader culture of outrage and
offense taking. I also don’t think Apu is any more egregious than any Simpson stereotype.

I don’t think I’ve in any way framed it as anti-white. I find it to be the epitome of outrage culture, manufactured problems and learned helplessness. What kind of adult allows their inner life to be controlled by cartoons? And what kind of culture are we cultivating with the seven think pieces I’ve read on it? It is…

I’m not talking about the film, and these comments are far from uncommon. I also read six think pieces about this controversy, and the controversies never end. And its coming from the social justice crowd, who have absolutely commited to having an external locus of control. And it is having a chilling effect on speech…

It’s fine to be upset. It isn’t fine to teach people that they have an external locus of control and that what other people do or say controls one’s inner life so they must try to censor the world. That’s what I find harmful. The fact that this is still an issue tells me that a large portion of the population demands…

I don’t think they are equivalent. Frankly, I may have overreacted to your statement that whiteness erodes cultural heritage. I understand your position now. There are other commenters operating under the idea that whiteness as a social concept inherently oppressed people. I was responding to that. My apologies.

The alt right talks about Jewry, an ethos and cultural mindset which erodes people’s cultural heritage.

My god, man. Where are your progressives standing up for free speech? Where are they? It is endemic on the progressive left to be against free speech. 60% of college students do not think protecting the first amendment is more important than stopping “hate speech”. Where is this coming from, the right?

How does it work? Scenario based on real life: Julie is white and was born poor in the Midwest, was abused and dropped out high school. She’s been working the same menial job for twenty years and has chronic pain from doing so. She was prescribed Oxy but then the state cut her prescription in half, so she went to a…

The idea that actors must be limited to whom they can play by race is frankly anti-art and deeply regressive. You are calling for artistic limitations based on race. You people are progressives?

The whole “white concept”. You people talk about white people like the alt right talk about Jews. Does that tell you anything?

Apu is Hank Azaria. You think that a voice actor must be the same race as their character, regardless of merit? Or course you do.

What exactly do people want to happen here? Are we really going to try to change everything that some people find offensive and flip out when they refuse?

Holy shit. If a wave of young people across the nation calling themselves progressives commit violence and silence people, WHAT SHOULD THEY BE CALLED?