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isnt the yt hillbilly character just as stereotypical? as well as various characters on the show?
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isnt the yt hillbilly character just as stereotypical? as well as various characters on the show?
I know this is moving the goal posts but these jokes are all being made, just not with black folks in the audience.......So is it offensive only because we hear it? Or because these types of jokes are being said in the first place.....Because if that was not the case, all the racist in America should be free to make jokes about lynching dumb angry, violent n-words in a watermelon patch, or joke about how they swiped away from an ugly chick on Tinder faster than cops executed Tamir Rice; as long as they say it at open mic night, it is cool, right?
And jokes that mock the centuries of oppression of African American and mock them as simpletons and buffoons are cool cause you know, jokes are exempt from criticism, and Dave Chappelle did Chuck Taylor, and the Wayns made White Girls.
Yeah but I think this is specifically more about how minorities are portrayed to the masses more so than a show indulging in stereotypes for comedy.isnt the yt hillbilly character just as stereotypical? as well as various characters on the show?
Yeah but I think this is specifically more about how minorities are portrayed to the masses more so than a show indulging in stereotypes for comedy.
This reminds to marathon the whole series. I will catch every episode.
And Birth of a Nation was just a movie, don't know why folks stay trippin.It's just a cartoon show, Jesus Christ.
Humor is offensive, this is not a new ideal. PC culture should stay aways from it all together. Keep that micro-agession **** away from television immortality please.
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In an interview with USA Today about the show’s recording-breaking 636th episode, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening publicly addressed the Apu controversy for the first time. To recap: comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary, The Problem with Apu, that addresses how Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, an Indian immigrant voiced by a white man, is symptomatic of a bigger issue: how people of color are depicted in pop culture. It’s a well-reasoned film, which The Simpsons dismissed with a joke that did not go over well. After the episode aired, showrunner Al Jean tweeted that the show will “try to find an answer that is popular & more important right,” while Hank Azaria, who portrays Apu, offered to “step aside” from voicing the character.
"When asked if he’s thought about the criticism of Apu as a stereotype, he replied, “Not really. I’m proud of what we do on the show. And I think it’s a time in our culture where people love to pretend they’re offended.” Groening then added, “We’ll let the show speak for itself.”
I think it’s a time in our culture where people love to pretend they’re offended.
I don't think the comparison to birth of a nation was hyperbolic. The initial poster made a quick, surface level dismissal of The Simpsons as a piece of art/media with no regard to the content. Anything could've been put there really in that context, **** I could've said Transformers.