# Fix Apu Storyline **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [May 4, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553 "2018-05-04T05:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553/61 "2018-05-07T13:24:33Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > What Exit: > > But is liking spicy food a particularly Indian stereotype, given how many other cuisines are spicy? If it’s not Indian cuisine he’s fond of, it’s no more a stereotypical Indian trait than a Mexican one. I agree ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553/62 "2018-05-07T14:02:55Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I don’t know if it is outright in this thread, I suspect though that you probably think my anti-racist credentials are poorer than yours because I don’t buy into Hari’s criticism. …so the wider problem you have with the problem with Apu is something that you are imagining is happening in my brain? That hardly seems to be a problem you should be worrying about. In my humble opinion of course. It certainly doesn’t seem to be problem that can be resolved in a discussion in cafe society. I’m not going to share the inner working of my brain here I’m afraid, and if that means you will forever be worried I might be suspecting you of something then that is just something you are going to have to live with. > [@](#): > > I suspect you wouldn’t see it anyway or would dismiss it as not a problem in any case. You’ve casually dismissed the problem with Apu. So I guess we are even? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553/63 "2018-05-07T17:56:25Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …so the wider problem you have with the problem with Apu is something that you are imagining is happening in my brain? yup, and other brains like it, I think that it is a wider problem and it gets in the way of honest discussion. > [@](#): > > I’m not going to share the inner working of my brain here I’m afraid, and if that means you will forever be worried I might be suspecting you of something then that is just something you are going to have to live with. Call me old-fashioned but I find honesty and clarity in discussions like this tends to help people to an understanding. Knowing what you are thinking would actually be helpful but…it is your choice of course. > [@](#): > > You’ve casually dismissed the problem with Apu. So I guess we are even? Again, I don’t think that is how productive discussions work. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553/64 "2018-05-07T18:11:59Z")
Nobody has the power to control if other people are offended by something. All one can do is decide whether or not to care. I’ve personally settled on the “not” side of this particular issue and like Apu just the way he is. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553/65 "2018-05-07T23:45:09Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > yup, and other brains like it, I think that it is a wider problem and it gets in the way of honest discussion. …so to clarify: your primary problem with Hari’s critique of Apu is that you don’t know what is going on in my brain, and you feel that it gets in the way of honest discussion? It doesn’t have anything to do with what Hari actually said? > [@](#): > > Call me old-fashioned but I find honesty and clarity in discussions like this tends to help people to an understanding. Knowing what you are thinking would actually be helpful but…it is your choice of course. What does that have to do with the problem with Apu? I’m being perfectly honest with you, and if you need more clarity you simply have to ask. > [@](#): > > Again, I don’t think that is how productive discussions work. I think we are well past “productive.” But if you are casually dismissing the problem with Apu and I am casually dismissing your concerns about what is happening in my brain, then we are even, are we not? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553/66 "2021-04-16T14:25:45Z")
Bumped. > **[‘Simpsons’ Star Hank Azaria Apologizes to ‘Every Single Indian Person’ for...](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/simpsons-hank-azaria-apologizes-apu-1234950377/)** > > Hank Azaria has issued an apology for voicing Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu on “The Simpsons,” a controversial role he played for 30 years despite Apu being Indian. “I apologize for my pa… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553/67 "2021-04-16T17:49:39Z")
It won’t be good enough until he does it to each of them, individually. In their first language. The kneebiter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-apu-storyline/813553.md?page=3)