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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:01:23 AM No.148977959
Apu_Nahasapeemapetilon_(The_Simpsons)
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Now that the dust has settled can we admit he had a point? Apu is a blatant racist caricature.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:02:15 AM No.148977969
Thank you, post again!
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:03:12 AM No.148977981
>>148977959 (OP)
Not really, he just has an accent, which isn't even as strong as some actual Indians I've met irl
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:06:51 AM No.148978033
It's either this or DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:07:56 AM No.148978041
>>148977959 (OP)
>get rid of Apu
>world immediately realizes Indians are low IQ savages and/or scammers
what a twist
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:14:42 AM No.148978115
>>148977959 (OP)
Indians long for the days when anti-indian racism was just "hehe kwick-e-mart, thank you come again!".

It's gotten so much fucking worse since Apu's removal.
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El Barto
6/12/2025, 6:29:52 AM No.148978237
>>148977959 (OP)
honestly for a blatant racist caricature, they rly put their all into fleshing him out

it's kinduva shame the staff have gotten cold feet onto both resolving the issue and just generally bringing him back
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:31:11 AM No.148978248
>>148977959 (OP)
he's a cultural stereotype
if Apu's mom adopted a... *spins the wheel* native New Zealander.. and raised him in india, he'd talk like that, he'd have graduated from technical college, he'd be running a quik-e-mart or driving a cab, he'd be polite and hard-working

meanwhile if apu had been stolen as a baby and raised as Cletus's brother, he'd be a redneck and he'd talk that way. Probably identically to Cletus since that's the same timbre of Azaria's voice. it's not the race involved here.

And that's very important, because a race is something you can't make fun of someone for, since they can't change it. The purpose of mockery and rebuke is to change your ways. "Stop talking like that, talk like this, stop shitting there, put it here" etc
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:32:11 AM No.148978258
>>148978237
Would you really want him in nu Simpsons?
I actually watched a new episode just because Albert Brooks came back as Jacques
it was the driest, most unfunny thing I've ever seen. there wasn't even one joke, there was half a joke.
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El Barto
6/12/2025, 6:36:10 AM No.148978292
>>148978258
honestly by now. i think most people that still watch the sumps judge it for being compelling rather than being funny (though that doesplay a part)
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:39:34 AM No.148978312
>>148977959 (OP)
No he wasn't. He was, at worst, a stereotype but those only exist in fiction because they exist in real life. Go to your local 7/11 equivalent right now and see who's working.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:41:36 AM No.148978333
>>148977959 (OP)
why you dont care that the Italian Chef is still there?
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:43:17 AM No.148978346
>>148977959 (OP)
>washes his hands
>uses a toilet
I guess is like when landwhales cry about Barbie, and Adidas Chancaca was offended by the impossible standards of Apu
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:36:02 AM No.148979237
>>148978115
They deserve it
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:41:05 AM No.148979269
>>148977959 (OP)
It's a good thing that indians are known not for the false narrative of them being hard working educated business owners who only want to be part of the community... And instead we get the real truth of them being rapist scamster gremlin people who eat poop they shit on the street.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:49:15 AM No.148979314
>>148978312
A mexican dude and a skinny white guy
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:51:37 AM No.148979331
>>148978312
An asian woman with a resting bitch face.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:54:28 AM No.148979351
>>148977959 (OP)
Not really. The world doesn't revolve around this buzzword "racist."

It makes me sad that Apu was basically written out of the Simpsons. I remember when a 7-11 was converted to a Kwik-E-Mart. I remember the Simpsons trivia game had a 6 sided die, and one of those die faces as Apu.

Apu was a close friend to the Simpsons. That sent a powerful message of befriending people who are very different from you. It was a powerful message that a bunch of White Christians would welcome an Indian Hindu into their own home.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:00:43 AM No.148979401
>>148977959 (OP)
Apu was the hardest-working Indian of all time. He was holding back all the truly vile things people say about Indians nowadays. Indians have no idea how good they had it with Apu. I would rather someone say "thank you come again" to me then call me a poop. Their whole race is reduced to litteral shit. People also call them street shitters and scammers. No one likes Indians anymore because, without Apu, to direct people away from real racism.

>TLDR: Without Apu, "thank you come again" was replaced with "Bobs and vagine". You guys acted like pussies and got real racism instead.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:09:49 AM No.148979453
>>148979401
You never hear mexicans complain about Bumblebee-guy, cause why would we? He’s a pastiche of El Chapulin, and is genuinely funny. Every black character in the show is a positive role model, the only east asian characters i can think of off the top of my head is Akira, who is also pretty funny. But one literal who comedian says Apu made him self conscious so they cut a character who had the most development outside the main cast?
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:20:06 AM No.148979488
>>148979453
I know it's cliché to say at this point, but I actually liked Apu so much that it literally elevated my opinions of Indians. Now obviously, this was on a subconscious level. But after he was booted out of the show, and was kicked out of the popular culture zeitgeist, I had to re-evaluate my thoughts on Indians. And none of it is good, unfortunately. It pains me to say this because I am not your classic lay cool racism 4channer. I don't like being racist, but sometimes it's just true. I really wished India as a country would work hard to clean up the bad PR like the rape scamming and street shitting but I'm not holding my breath.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:23:06 AM No.148979500
>>148979453
I'm Japanese. And I like Akira.

It's a good message to show The Simpsons befriending people of other races and religions. It was a good message to see how much The Simpsons cared for Apu that they would go out of their way to do things like helping him with immigration, helping his family, and helping him when he lost the Kwik-E-Mart.

How is getting rid of Apu a good message? "Ignore minorities, don't be friends with them, don't invite them into your home. Befriend mostly people of your own race" isn't a good message.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:25:30 AM No.148979507
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>>148978041
He already scammed people selling them contaminated food.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:27:34 AM No.148979517
>>148979453
>so they cut a character who had the most development outside the main cast?
what's your definition of side character? because mr burns and ned definitely have more development.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:29:58 AM No.148979527
This is the same guy that cry about the British Raj 24-7 by the way
>>148979453
>But one literal who comedian says Apu made him self conscious
Friendly reminder that said """""""""""""""comedian""""""""""""""" that cried about Apu is the same person whose main claim to fame back then was some "so edgy and realistic" short about Power Rangers, who said how Power Rangers (a bastardized and sanitized burger version of a japanese kids show) was more "morally gray and nuanced unlike Star Wars", who then went on to make the Netflix Castlevania and dmc """"anime"""
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:42:58 AM No.148979582
>>148979507
yeah people can get too rosecolored with apu sometimes in these discussions. they often show deference to him as the weary straight man that has to suffer white pigs but just as often he's the shady immigrant business owner that will stab you in the back without a second thought if it will save him a buck.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 9:44:46 AM No.148979588
>>148979507
Yeah, but it was never implied that he scammed people cause of his ethnicity. He scammed people because everyone in Springfield is a massive caricature of American life. The mayor was a mix of jfk and clinton, the police chief was an Ed Robinson parody, fat tony was every mob movie character. Apu selling tainted food was more of a joke about how much junkfood Americans eat. When Apu moved in, he cooked for the family and they loved the food. The joke in that scene was that indian food was too spicy for the simpsons.
>>148979517
I’d count everyone outside the main 5 as side characters. Considering Burns is basically the main antagonist for most episodes he features in and that Flanders is their next door neighbor who was supposed to contrast how dysfunctional Homer is, Apu’s development is pretty substantial.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:09:28 AM No.148979729
>>148977959 (OP)
Of course he had a point. That's why they couldn't fight back. Only racists loved Apu
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:10:30 AM No.148979737
>>148978312
A stoned white guy and some Goth(?) Latina.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:11:55 AM No.148979743
They should be grateful to live in the USA and cease complaining
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:18:56 AM No.148979783
>>148977959 (OP)
Bait. Mods ban this Person.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:23:41 AM No.148979813
>>148979507
>>148979582
>>148979588
It's more of a shoddy store joke than an ethnicity joke
A friend of mine worked at KFC and she was told to shill expired food
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:36:23 AM No.148979896
>>148978237
Shut up namefag
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:39:17 AM No.148979914
>>148979729
Shut up rajeet
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:45:58 AM No.148979958
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>>148979527
>power rangers and sentai isn't about good versus evil
this has got the be single handedly the most midwit, media illiterate take I've ever fucking seen.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:48:03 AM No.148979973
Yes and it is a relic of the show being 25 years old. The flip side of that is in that 25 years they did develop him into a real character and not a racist stereotype.

It wouldn't hurt if they had Indian writers on the show or give him an Indian VA. I always thought they should canonically retire him and have a new character with a new Indian VA run the Kwik-E-Mart
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:54:20 AM No.148979999
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>>148977959 (OP)
A blatant racist caricature found in the sarcastic dark humor adult cartoon made to mercilessly mock americans in every possible way... Must have been quite a shock
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:57:36 AM No.148980010
>>148979973
too bad the jeet ruined any and all chance of him ever being fleshed out.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:57:59 AM No.148980012
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>>148977959 (OP)
A blatant racist caricature found in the sarcastic dark humor adult cartoon made to mercilessly mock americans in every possible way... Must have been quite a shock
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:58:37 AM No.148980018
>>148979743
the worst place in america is probably like a palace to them in comparison.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:59:05 AM No.148980019
>>148979973
Retarded take
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 11:18:22 AM No.148980104
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>>148977959 (OP)
and big tony, the Italian chef, grounds keeper willy, cleetus, aren't racist caricatures?

why is there no call to ban those characters? why is there no "why isn't the scottish guy voiced by an actual scottish person" nobody says two shits about that, I FUCKING WONDER WHY THAT IS

if anything, apu is extremely flattering compared to how Indians are seen now days (scammers, shilling AI and literal street shitters)
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 11:40:06 AM No.148980201
>>148980104
with whiteness in america you can escape ethnic prejudice after one or two gens. indians are apu forever.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 11:45:49 AM No.148980232
>>148980201
you mispelt "a poo"
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 11:58:10 AM No.148980275
>>148979237
You have no idea. In real life the Indian Government hates its own people so much that what little money they get they invest it not in welfare, medical care, or general education and jobs for Indian citizens but rather into large scale regional parks to defend......man eating tigers. Not even joking.

This has led to more Indian citizens starting to poison tigers by intentionally helping poachers or leaving poisoned meat in certain areas so the tigers eat them and die like that. The Indian government has also made no secret that they want the number of Indians in their nation to go down.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:02:52 PM No.148980297
>>148979453
>You never hear mexicans complain about Bumblebee-guy

Even with the existence of the character Mexicans are still called horrible illegal bastards who bring their crime to the USA especially Drug Cartels. And this year it got even worse. Lots of people are starting to hate Mexicans.

The worst part is Mexicans are acting indignant and seem to want to cause complications with the USA government especially that Jewish Bitch who is now president of Mexico. I smell a huge trap to start warfare or something worse. But the last thing Mexico should do is inflame the USA especially after the Mexican American War which wasn't that long ago.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:05:17 PM No.148980307
>>148977959 (OP)
Really? Is he super rapey and constantly throwing shit around and standing on train tracks?
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:10:18 PM No.148980329
>>148979507
The worst thing Apu did was him hiring Homer during the pony episode and Apu under his breath explains he hired Homer because he wanted a white American to work for him so he as an immigrant would be able to boss him around. So Apu is slightly racist towards others.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:12:47 PM No.148980343
>>148980018
The worst place in America is South America. Holy hell third world HELL. Maybe Argentina is not so bad but the rest? The negative stereotypes about the corruption and crime and shit its real.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:13:52 PM No.148980347
>>148977959 (OP)
>take away a racists power and they fall apart
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:14:55 PM No.148980349
>>148980275
Man. Indians really are subhuman. They kill endangered species.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:15:46 PM No.148980353
>>148980347
Kys faggot
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:21:45 PM No.148980375
>>148977959 (OP)

Indians since the early 2000's felt uncomfortable with Apu and the creator said that he based his accent off annoiance, so yes, he is a racist cariacture
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:21:56 PM No.148980377
>>148980349
Can you blame them? If your government prefers investing what little cash they have on rescuing tigers would you not be angry and start doing crimes to spite the government? And then there's the historic abusive Indian Caste bullshit which has haunted generations of Indian citizens.

Don't excuse them, but do understand why they act out.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:22:48 PM No.148980382
>>148980375
Cope streetshitter
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:23:59 PM No.148980388
>>148977959 (OP)
No because the people who complain about Apu don't understand Apu, they fail to apply Immanent critique.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:24:49 PM No.148980390
>>148980377
I mean what do you expect from a religion that basically says that poor people are born poor because they were pieces of shit in a previous life, so they deserve all the suffering and poverty they get.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:31:11 PM No.148980422
>>148980297
Tensions aren’t bad enough to start actual conflict with Mexico. As unhinged as Trump is, he wouldn’t do that. But maybe I’m wrong as he wants to annex Canada and Greenland, so…
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:33:41 PM No.148980432
>>148980422
Mexico would chew the US up and spit it out in a full scale war.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:34:23 PM No.148980435
>>148980297
>But the last thing Mexico should do is inflame the USA
But the USA can inflame Mexico as much as it wants?
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:39:22 PM No.148980458
>>148980435
At this rate I'd bet real money on a second American Civil War happening before a new war with Mexico
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:41:50 PM No.148980469
>>148980458
>Second US Civil War

Lol, the states have been neutered to hell ever since the Civil War. You won't see states rise up, and take up arms against the Feds.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:44:56 PM No.148980483
>>148977959 (OP)
> With Apu
> In the American social consciousness, Indians seen as hard-up immigrants who are willing to be industrious
Without Apu
> In the American social consciousness, Indians exposed as street-shitting useless code-monkey scamming jeets
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:51:44 PM No.148980509
>>148977959 (OP)
youd think indians would love him for driving red sports car and being desired by springfield women.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:52:45 PM No.148980517
>>148980275
the fertility rate of india has dropped bigly, below 2 in most areas
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:54:45 PM No.148980525
>>148980349
>They kill endangered species.
Yeah they learned that from Europeans
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 1:09:49 PM No.148980588
>>148980435
>enflame Mexico
>by saying illegal immigrants need to go back where they came from and a bit of tariff fuckery
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 1:30:24 PM No.148980673
>>148979527
>Power rangers is not about good vs evil. It's about shades of gray, about people working together to overcome those shades of gray
>through a single point of view
So it's not about good vs evil (white vs black if you will), it's the lightest shades of gray coming together to fight the darkest shades of gray? Almost as if it's about good vs evil (white vs black if you will)?
>I don't know what the empire did wrong. I still have no idea. Yeah they blew up a planet, but that's a cheap reason to hate someone
He's so very obviously trying to sound quirky and funny that it just strengthens how retarded his whole take is. It's not that he doesn't understand what these things are about, it's that he needs his take to sound enlightened and special because he'd rather burst than to let anyone know he doesn't have anything deeper to say about it.

So to never have to post in this shit thread again, I'll say that my dislike for indians, above all, is because they are hypocrite classist pieces of shit. The poo in the loo do not redeem saaaaaar types are just as awful as the rich entitled adi sankar types, but the latter will somehow pretend the only charicature that collectively painted them in a positive light for over a decade is somehow the real problem.