I know, it’s so hard being white in America. Thoughts and prayers to you in this difficult time.

The thing is, it’s not just a white guy voicing an Indian character: it’s a white guy voicing an Indian character who’s a walking pile of stereotypes, without less stereotypical characters to balance him out. It’s a combination of issues that exacerbate eachother.

There’s a big difference between being a white woman and having 10,000 TV characters represent you, and being a South Asian man and having 1 character represent you for at least a couple decades. This is what we call “white privilege” which you unfortunately seem blind to.

Growing up in the ‘90s in an area that was incredibly white (still over 90%) and probably a four-hour drive to the nearest Indian restaurant, you could bet anytime Indian people, or even just India, came up in conversation, there was a “Kwik-E-Mart” or “Thank you, come again” reference coming in the next minute or…

“Phony white outrage” from Hari Kondabolu...

THE INTERNET FOR THE PAST DECADE: The Simpsons isn’t funny anymore, it’s a shadow of its former self, they should just kill it already.

Why do people act like Kondabolu’s point is to “change” Apu? From his point of view, Apu is pretty much a lost cause.

First off, Kent Brockman won the lottery. Second, stop acting like Kondabolu has issued some sort of mandate for how the show must change Apu. He was asked about it in an interview, and he said what they could do is make Apu more upwardly mobile.

When will your “two weeks hate” against Hari Kondabolu run out of steam? I’d ask when you’ll start to look unreasonable, but that ship has clearly sailed.

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’M NOT MAD, YOU GUYS! I HAVE MET AN INDIAN!”

So you’re completely ignorant on the content of the article you comment on, but you think your opinion is valid. Got it. Moving along.

So you don’t care and are here to harass people who get worked up over the racist portrayal of indians because you know an Indian guy and he’s doing well? Is that about right?

I think you mean, maybe people are tired of being called out for their outdated prejudices.

The irony of you throwing a tantrum about other people’s feelings can be seen from space.

You’re coming from the perspective that the people defending Jean have ANY kind of stance.

Eat shit and die, you dimwit.

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…

Even liberals can get too old and too rich and become huge assholes.

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