The guy probably is a genius and has been the brains behind some of the greatest animated films of the past 25 years. And he squanders it by being a giant asshole and a sexist pig. I wish those kinds of gifts were only given to people who deserved them.

One thing I would love is some sort of universal logo for vegetarian, or even just a little phrase next to where it says “Contains tree nuts”, something like “contains beef”. It’d save me so much time in the soup aisle.

Exactly!

exactly... you’re an omnivore...

Meat eaters are some of the most sensitive, delicate, hyper-defensive crybaby wimps I’ve ever seen. You are not tough. You are not real men/women. Not because you eat meat and talk shit about vegan stuff, anyway. You just look like sourpatch babies when you run your mouths like this. And you jump at articles like this…

No, overprocessed garbage is what most meat-eaters consume.

The real story here is that you have to pay $39 to file a restraining order. That seems like a pretty good way to exclude poor folk from some fairly fundamental protections...

Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing ... more than half of the time!

Except there was no lynch mob. The documentary came out, people wrote some articles and had some conversations, and it mostly died down until as episode aired that addressed the matter in a tone that managed to be neither funny nor insightful.

I think you just saved humanity because Skynet can’t process such an incorrect opinion.

Seriously. I haven’t watched the Simpsons since the late 90s when, in my opinion, the writing went downhill in its cleverness and incisiveness but I’m still shocked that a showrunner is using the National Review as some kind of defense of an episode.

Thank God I’m white!

For me, this has become less about Apu and more about the fact that the showrunner of The Simpsons is comfortable sharing an article from the National Review to defend his smirking contempt for fans willing to have a conversation.

So to answer the question... you didn’t see it?

This is the problem with these modern outrages: they always have to be so binary about it. I have no problem with people having problems with representation, sexism, tokenism, or any other -ism, but the dialogue always seem to divide up into two camps; you’re either “fer” it or “agin” it with no nuance, very little…

“hyper-sensitive”

Shut the fuck up, you dumbshit. Is that sensitive enough?

The argument that Lisa was the mouthpiece for the writers’ shitty beliefs because she’s Apu’s friend is kind of insane, no?

Have you seen the documentary? It’s not as hyper-sensitive as you may think.

I always thought Simpsons was a pretty liberal show... but if you just search on twitter right after they aired said episode, right wing people all came out in support of the show, so I guess it’s bridging divides... And Al Jean is now subtweeting National Review.

How do all these successful Hollywood people earn so much money when not one of them has an original idea?