Dox47 wrote:
As to why I'm pivoting to the broad left from a handful of aggrieved Indian Americans, that's because it's the left who has created this very fertile environment for that sort of complaint to be taken seriously, where as previously it could be safely ignored as a handful of grievance seekers and the overly sensitive. .
You are giving this more weight than the issue actually has. Hari Kondabalu was the
only person who made an issue. He dragged his Indian friends in the entertainment industry to make a documentary because he was trying to turn a personal issue into a campaign.
Why? because Kondabalu was a mediocre comedian looking for gigs in acting (he even says this in one of his podcasts). He's not a Russell Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Mindy Kaling or Aziz Ansari who are household names. He was angry why a non-Indian got to play the iconic role of Apu. That was where all this was stemming from.
I'm not saying racists would use the caricature of Apu to belittle/bully Indian people (especially in school). They were. But, here's the thing, racists in school were always going to be little s**ts regardless of whether Apu existed or not. Did his character contribute toward racism. Probably not, the people who use Apu as a racial trope would have just picked something else to do inflict pain (that's what s**ts do).
13 Aug 2022, 7:51 pm
