The Simpsons Drops Apu Character Due to Racial Stereotyping Controversy

Producers of The Simpsons have announced that their long-running Indian character, Apu, will be written out of the show due to increased complaints that he reflects an insulting racial stereotype, NME reported.

The nearly 30-year-old animated sitcom has featured Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon as a wise-cracking, and sometimes clueless, father of eight children.

Apu first appeared in 1990, early in the series. But criticism has been mounting over the depiction of the character. With the character being a convenience store owner and sporting a heavy accent, it has been deemed a “racist” depiction of an Indian-American. People of Indian heritage have slammed the heavily accented cartoon character for reinforcing stereotypes they insist can lead to bullying and self-loathing.

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Although it does not seem really relevant, because it is only a caricature, it is tragic to see the progressives can continue to put their noses where they want, and cry to achieve changes in society. On this occasion they have only managed to eliminate a character that had appeared for 30 years in a series of animated drawings that has been in decline for more than a decade. But this is not the first case, and neither will it be the last.

The foolishness of the progressives and their constant kicks of young children to achieve continuous social demands, we have seen how they have managed to turn Achilles into a black character, when it is known that he was blond, he has tried unsuccessfully to turn James Bond into a character feminine or black, and many other examples that are not worth mentioning.

War is won and lost through the control of culture, and national values. The continuity and destruction of them depend on the means of social formation, and unfortunately, with the deterioration suffered by the traditional family in which mothers were concerned to provide security and confidence to their children, while the father was in charge to provide responsibility. All training has fallen into the hands of the State and the media.

Now the State actively promotes progressive policies in schools, and the media that play politics also do the same. Everything that they consider to be incorrect or inappropriate will be censored, everything they consider correct or appropriate will be promoted. This is the beginning of a tyranny of idiots, which can only last as long as honest, hard-working and principled people decide not to do anything.

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