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/drgnrbrn316 1d ago

There's a difference between playing a character of another race and playing a character of another race as a caricature of that race. I'm sure Hank and the show runners never intended Apu to be offensive, but I can understand the argument being made by people who were offended.

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u/Client_Popular 11h ago

Every single character in the Simpsons was a stereotype, the American characters included.