Comments on: Not So Kwik: The Apu Dilemma http://greatganesha.com/2007/07/17/not-so-kwik-the-apu-dilemma/ idol ramblings, holy irreverent. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:58:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Great Ganesha http://greatganesha.com/2007/07/17/not-so-kwik-the-apu-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-497 The Great Ganesha Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:43:42 +0000 http://greatganesha.com/?p=575#comment-497 good question. and my <a href="/2007/07/18/not-so-kwik-the-apu-dilemma-postscript/" rel="nofollow">response</a>. good question. and my response.

]]> By: Nikhil http://greatganesha.com/2007/07/17/not-so-kwik-the-apu-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Nikhil Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:08:05 +0000 http://greatganesha.com/?p=575#comment-498 Excellently and fairly articulated, as usual. I'm quite amazed at all the chatter this has brought to the blogosphere (I just saw Desipundit's round-up of some of the blog posts and comments about this issue). I see your point about the negative stereotypes, but that's the whole point isn't it? Aren't all the characters stereotypes? Yes, the accent is inaccurate, and the character is two-dimensional, but.....it's a cartoon (one of the definitions of which - from Webster's dictionary- is "a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal". Maybe I'm not analyzing this intellectually enough, but I just don't understand why people are offended. I seriously doubt this is going to take us back to "Jim Crow's America", as Manish thinks it will. If it weren't for parodying stereotypes in all their glorious forms, we'd have no humor. And I wouldn't like that other show - Family Guy - as much as I do. My $0.02. Excellently and fairly articulated, as usual.

I’m quite amazed at all the chatter this has brought to the blogosphere (I just saw Desipundit’s round-up of some of the blog posts and comments about this issue).

I see your point about the negative stereotypes, but that’s the whole point isn’t it? Aren’t all the characters stereotypes? Yes, the accent is inaccurate, and the character is two-dimensional, but…..it’s a cartoon (one of the definitions of which – from Webster’s dictionary- is “a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal”.

Maybe I’m not analyzing this intellectually enough, but I just don’t understand why people are offended. I seriously doubt this is going to take us back to “Jim Crow’s America”, as Manish thinks it will.

If it weren’t for parodying stereotypes in all their glorious forms, we’d have no humor. And I wouldn’t like that other show – Family Guy – as much as I do.

My $0.02.

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