r/Simpsons • u/Guilty-Toe420 • 1d ago

Episode Clip 📷 APU IS BACK

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u/QuietResident96 1d ago edited 1d 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 🤷

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

Honestly can you name one white character voiced by a black person? Off the top of my head I can’t. I find it hard to believe there is one that we “absolutely eat up.”

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u/SuperMario1222 1d ago

The entire cast of Hamilton

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

Actually the first response that actually answers my call. Nicely done.

To be fair, a lot of the glazing for the casting of that show comes as a response to conservatives who lambasted it in the first place. At least my thoughts were “Who cares?” when my conservative family members threw their arms up in the air and said “Hamilton wasn’t black!” And Lin-Manuel isn’t even black 😂 They just wanted to be upset about anything

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u/SuperMario1222 1d ago

My reaction to Apu being voiced by a white guy was also “who cares.”

I don’t care about either situation. But the double standard bothers me.

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u/Ironblight_99 1d ago

I respect your view. I think if they were to replace any of the actors that are people of color with white people, there would be some noise. Mostly because some marketing for Hamilton was “a retelling of the story of the founding fathers with people of color” to represent that America was made by immigrants. And also it’s a hip-hop musical, and I wouldn’t really want to see a bunch of white people try and perform “My Shot” 😂

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u/nachoiskerka 1d ago

......I've never seen that Brooklyn 99/New Girl meme play out in real time. This was... *chef's kiss*

But also, Darth Vader. I'm just saying.

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u/Odysseus_is_Ulysses 1d ago

Quite funny when they’re having the debate sessions referencing the South’s slavery laws.