When The Simpsons were first big over here {Great Britain} back in the glorious '90s, í remember even then thinking that you would not get away with the casual Apu mockery on a British comedy show of the time. Same thing when we eventually got to see Letterman, and the easy, casual mocking of Indian people for cheap laughs.
Obviously it took a couple of decades for the Apu 'bomb' to go off in the States, but could it not be that it's nice and handy to highlight big {fat} bad Adolf Moz right now to distract a little from their own lengthy and ingrained unthinking racist mockery?
Let's imagine if M. had done "Bengali in Platforms" in a 'funny' accent...?
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