The decision comes five months after actor Hank Azaria announced he would no longer be voicing the controversial character Apu.
and that the role would be recast, and Jenny Slate said she would no longer voice a Black character on the Netflix series' producers have for years pushed back against efforts to change the show's characters, many of which have been portrayed with heavily stereotypical personalities. But Apu, whose character speaks heavily accented English and is in an arranged family with eight children, had been highly problematic for years.
The show ended up addressing the controversy during one of its episodes but pushed back at the time against any notion of change. "Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect," Lisa Simpson says to her mother in an episode while her mother reads a children's book that has been updated to remove stereotypical references."Some things will be dealt with at a later date," Marge, her mother, tells her.
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