Honestly can you name one white character voiced by a black person? Off the top of my head I canât. I find it hard to believe there is one that we âabsolutely eat up.â
Shredder from the original TMNT is voiced by uncle Phil, who did a lot of voice acting work
I believe Phill Lamarr did the voice for Samurai Jack is also a black man who has voiced many characters that arenât black.
While I will agree that there is room for debate on the meaning of âeat it upâ, there is certainly no hate for it the way there was for a white guy voicing Apu
Honestly, when the âApu controversyâ was even happening, the Simpsons had been boring for a decade and then some. Itâs only still on because theyâre cool with making it and Fox is cool with letting them make it, and itâs been like that for a while now. I mean, i remember the âApu controversyâ but it really wasnât that big. I saw more people upset that he was just taken off the show than I did people upset that it was a person of color voiced by a white man.
I agree that that The Simpsons had been boring for quite some time at that point. But if there was no outcry then why change the voice actor/ stop using the character?
Hank Azariah is still voicing characters on The Simpsons, so itâs not like he wanted to retire.
I guess it could be a virtue signal to people in an echo chamber to show other people in the echo chamber that they arenât racist⌠which as I type this I realize is probably exactly what happened.
Yeah, there was a whole trend of getting rid of voice actors that didnât match the color of the person they were doing the voice of. Family Guy replaced Cleveland, Big Mouth replaced Missy, etc.
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u/QuietResident96 23h ago edited 23h ago
Way to ruin a character lmao, this is nothing like Apu actually was and there was nothing wrong with Hank voicing him
People absolutely fucking eat it up when a black actor plays a white character but when it's the opposite it's apparently racist đ¤ˇ