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   From: Obveeus@aol.com   
      
   On 12/4/2017 10:52 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:   
   > In article , Obveeus    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Apu works hard, takes care of his family, and treats his customers   
   >> nicely.  Racially biased depictions/stereotypes could certainly be worse   
   >> than this.  I've seen multiple stand up comics of Indian/Southern Asian   
   >> ancestry depict the same kind of accent and so I cannot logically see   
   >> why it would be unacceptable for Hank Azaria to do it if they can do it.   
   >   
   > Maybe the same reason why white people can't use the N word, but it's OK   
   > for blacks.   
      
   Sure, but like I said...no *logical* argument.  Anyone making the   
   argument that only Indians can make jokes about Indians is a racist.   
      
   >>    Sure, the character talks funny and has a catch phrase...so do most of   
   >> the characters on THE SIMPSONS.  Should fat, old, white guys be claiming   
   >> discriminatory representation because of how Homer Simpson is depicted?   
   >> It seems to me that the center of the complaints against Apu is that he   
   >> is 'the only' character to be Indian on TV, which isn't quite true, but   
   >> to the extent that it is close, the complaint should be against the lack   
   >> of other representation rather than the fact that THE SIMPSONS does have   
   >> an Indian character.   
   >   
   > I think the complaint is something like "Why does the *only* Indian   
   > character on TV have to be such a stereotype?"   
      
   Which is an argument, but it isn't with THE SIMPSONS.  Instead, it is   
   with the rest of the TV landscape.   
      
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