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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: The Simpsons shouldn't change characters to backpedal stereotypes

If Britain releases a cartoon where they have an American character who:

\- Is an unemployed fat dude on welfare

\- Lives in a shack on a swamp

\- Wears a confederate flag shirt & a cowboy hat

\- Always is drunkenly shooting his guns at stuff

\- Married to his sister

This is arguably more offensive than Apu, Willie, Fat Tony, etc.  I don't see there being any outrage from Americans who moved to Britain causing them to revamp the character?

I don't get the hypersensitivity where making jokes about a culture equates to attacking that culture.  The Simpsons take shots on every culture, including American culture given how Homer is depicted.

Edit:

People have been asking about what this post is in reference to. This is mostly regarding the recent controversy over the characterization of Apu.
gpt
With Apu particularly, there is just not a lot of representation of Hindu culture in American media, whereas there is plenty of representation of white suburban men in the media, both positive and negative. So it becomes a problem when many people’s only reference for what a Hindu-American is, is based on an exaggerated cartoon stereotype. If there were more representation of Hindus  in American media, it wouldn’t be so offensive.