Hank Azaria to stop voicing Apu?

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I believe this was kicked off by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Apu , which was written by an Indian person.

Mr. Hanky hadn't been on South Park in quite some time, likely because he wasn't particularly relevant to the show anymore. If they really want to they could bring him back, but it doesn't seem like they'd need to.

I think they found having a Christmas poo was too childlike for an adult cartoon like South Park, despite the show's crude humour. I suppose having the Christmas poo in the first few seasons was rather funny, but as the show progressed and the characters developed more personality, having the silly Christmas poo lurking around became irrelevant.

they shoulda spun off mr. hanky to his own $#!+ show.

You may ask, but I don't have any answers for you =)

It's just the SJW culture we live in these days.

While I never cared much for mr. hanky anyway, there is a point to the question of where these shows are going. And art in general.

The Apu character is a stereotype, of course. All characters are. They are not real, so it's always possible to critize a fictional character of misrepresenting reality.

Also: yes, India is in bad shape today... A more real stereotype of an Indian could be a anti-muslim hindu-nationalist who thinks that it's okay to treat some people as less-than-human because god made them that way ...'better luck next life.'.... Apu is a stereotype. But reality could be so much worse. And if Apu were a tall, fair-skinned upper caste Indian with a degree from Stanford... He wouldn't be a realistic portrait either.

And that's a problem with fiction: any decision by a creator is always an exclusion of all other things, because reality is complex.
Someone's going to be offended, always.

Fiction might be too ... Political, just by it's nature, and because it can't defend itself like facts can - but then, we're argueing about those as well....