Is this stereotype offensive? Usually, The Simpsons' stereotyping is exceptionally accurate.
Whether a stereotype is offensive or not doesn’t mean you should be allowed to get so uppity about what is essentially just math / pattern recognition Also, people are allowed to be distinct or be a part of some trend — “did you just deny me my racial stereotype?” — and a Greek person should be proud to be so proud and melodramatic
>>96684364>is this offensiveGo ask leddit, they might give a fuck
>>96684364Apu was the only offensive stereotype The Simpsons had.
>>96684364Reminder that Comic Book Guy married a cosplaying Manga Artist.
>>96684364If you're offended, it's offensive to you.
>>96684490>hard working honest family man that runs his own convenience store and has funny yet not-so-different customs>offensiveTell me, what's the prevailing jeet stereotype nowadays?
>>96684364>Is this stereotype offensive?Nobody cares.
>>96684602>what's the prevailing jeet stereotype nowadaysThe glaring inability to detect sarcasm.
>>96684718Sorry I couldn't hear your sarcastic tone anon my tts must be acting up
>>96684602Apu is many things, but "honest" isn't one of them. Then again most of Springfield is equally dishonest or worse.
>>96684364I don't know we ever saw comic book guy with a wargame or TCG did we?He's fat guy, but I don't know he's much of a fa/tg/uy
>>96684364He’s there to mock annoying fanboys, not really comic shop owners I’ve never had a bad experience at a comic shop
>>96684908Yes, he's more of a /co/, /tv/ and /v/ nerd as far as I understand it. I wouldn't be too surprised if there is more wargame/cardgame references in the later seasons, because those became more well known in the writers' room, but who cares about those. Honestly I still doubt they would put that kind of joke front and center, because it would go over the head of normie audience, sounds more like background gag material.
>>96684918That's because comic shops and gaming stores ran by annoying fans go under pretty quickly. It's survivorship bias.
>>96684803I think it's a little goofy to suggest one cartoon upheld an entire ethnicity's image
No. I had two friends who looked and talked like him and I have a pony tail.
>>96684395Greeks invented gayness.
>>96684562He has a job in a segment that is useful for her, that's easy.
>>96684364Worst representation ever.
>>96684364It was accurate back then. Honestly most nerd types I've met were fucking obnoxious and insufferable.
>>96684928Pokemon has been firmly normiecore for almost 30 years, and Magic the Gathering has made a fair amount of inroads. Board games are pretty big now and 40k and Battletech are starting to get mainstream notice. >>96684933Halfway correct. If the annoying fan has some kind of alternate income source or personal wealth those kinds of stores can last a long time.
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>>96685259Well you are the expert on being gay.
>>96684364Lightly poking fun at this particular, somewhat dated, stereotype isn't really all that offensive. It's not like he's used to be seriously critical of people who like the things that he likes, and peoples' personal interests and opinions are generally not problematic to play with.Like most satire, holding a mirror up to the guy should remind us of ourselves, and of our more ridiculous behaviors. But it's not like he acts in a way that anyone should personally take offense over. It's the kind of thing we can laugh along with, because we know that we, or someone we're aware of, does the kinds of things that he does.
>>96684869Diogenes could walk into Springfield and loosen his criteria for an "honest man" by sunset.
>>96684490What was offensive about him? They got the wrong shade brown?
>>96684364I don't know. I think they got down how you look pretty accurately!
>>96684490>accurate representation is racist>they should all act exactly the same as White people>it's more diverse and inclusive that wayI genuinely can't even fucking tell who's Jewing who anymore. Have double agent trolls infiltrated the woke shit or are you faggots just this retarded?
>>96685135And that's the joke.
>>96684490Then why did they change the voice for Doctor Hibbert if it wasn't offensive?
>>96684364Anyone getting offended by stereotypes based on the real world aren't people worth caring about.
>>96684395I meant to say loud* and melodramatic, but Greeks are cartoonishly proud too. >>96685562Go fuck yourself.
>>96684364>OffensiveToughen up princess. Fucking faggot.
>>96687371All the little grey people of the world, who hate the beautiful diversity of human development, they always want to get rid of the natural, the noble and the beautiful. They wanted to get rid of it; they wanted to make all nature as grey as themselves. It was their deep instinct. We said: no, it won’t work, and it’s undesirable that it should work.
>>96684364I just realized I grew up to be comic book store guy.
>>96685598He would just acknowledge Flanders most likely.
>>96684364his name is Jeff Albertson, he's not a stereotype, he's a guy
>>96684364It's quite out of date. The average reader of Judeo-American comics these days is a disgusting troon.
>>96684364Offense is taken, not given. If you're offended, you're a bitch baby snowflake.
>>96689443Free speech and all that. Sure, mockery is kind of rude, but most only get offended when they recognize themselves. But if you see yourself, maybe you can learn a lesson?
>>96687371The purpose of 'diversity' is, ironically, homogeneity
>>96685135I hate to say it but considering how swiftly public sentiment turned on a dime after Kondabolu got his way, it's probably not goofy at all.
>>96684364Traditional games?
>>96690097This. Apu was extremely complimentary and super positive.>>96684364Nah, it's true 99% of the time
>>96690097It's more that when Apu was invented, the Indian stereotype was that of Indians who were enterprising enough to escape India by their own means rather than imported to the west en masse
>>96690301Apu is an illegal immgrant althoughbeit
>>96690482Which was treated as a shocking reveal and moral failing that has a whole episode based around righting that wrong rather than demanding to be handed free citizenship for touching American grass.
>>96684364I like there to be negative stereotypes about people like me so when I'm easily better than them I impress people by doing literally nothing.It's literally >Black guy says "I don't think we should kill whitey">All hail the great based one!
>>96684490SAAAAAARRRR
>>96690520It's sad that the bar is so low for blackies and yet 99% of them fail to overcome it. I thought black people were supposed to be good at jumping.
https://www.youtube.com/live/MFyWwS63tCk?si=BoNklnN6Dqcb6A47Just don't be a wargaming hipster
>>96684490>>96684602>>96687515They were offensive because they were voiced by a white.
>>96685259It's not the Greeks, it's the Chinese he's after!
>>96684364It's not even accurate anymore, because comic book guy wasn't known to regurgitate MSM headlines and reddit posts constantly
>>96684364this is how every self-aware poster on this board and culture as a whole describes themselves
>>96684364Who gives a fuck about Stereotypes? I mean, i fit this stereotype to a T and i couldn't give less of a fuck about it. Hell, i like Comic Book Guy.
>>96684602Outside 4channel? Codemonkeys and job takers. Sexual offenders to some extent.
>>96691807A lie repeated thousand times becomes truth.
>>96684395TRUKE>>96684364I know multiple nerds like this. its a real "type"
>>96684364"He is every comic book guy in America"--Matt Groening
>>96691865You forgot stinky and unable to use the loo.I see normies saying this on Facebook all the time.
>>96684364Like most Simpsons characters he's permanently stuck in the 90's. So he'll always be a scruffy ponytail nerd and never evolve into a modern onions/beard nerd, in the same way that Flanders will never become a 2020's evangelical who insists on calling Jesus "Yeshua" and flies an Israeli flag.
>>96684364It's accurate
>>96690508But he did get free citizenship. He was literally pushed to the head of the line rather than being punished and deported for his crime
>>96684364No it's not offensive. The person or people who wrote that character are us. That is a stereotype that only lands because those of us in these hobbies know it so well. This is us making fun of ourselves. It's not offensive at all. It's self-deprecating.
>>96692428He was a successful entrepreneur, which bought him that privilege, which in turn is American thing you can do.
>>96684562Shouldn't she have white skin?
>>96694191Maybe she's hapa
>>96684364The guy who ran the anime shop in my town since the 90s looked like comic book guy except with glasses. Everyone i met would immediately know the guy and talk shit about him if the anime store came up. Back in the day it was the only nerd store in town, unlike these days. I normally wouldn't hold it against a nerd but he was a greedy greedy fuck so everyone also hated him. Fuck the petit bourgeoisie.
>>96694608>WORST... COMIC BOOK GUY... EVER!
>>96684490lol
How hard did this hit? Be honest.
>>96684395Fpbp
>>96684918Met a few people like him before. Some of it is pretty accurate.>>96684933Goddamn is that true. I stopped going to a place after I had a bad experience with some of its employees, then it changed owners not long after.>>96688921My condolences, dude.>>96688939It's really funny and sad that they originally made him a Christian because they thought he was too sweet and nice not to be. Then they later started using him as a joke on Christians.
>>96684364>Is this stereotype offensive?Who cares? This is 4chan, not Reddit or facebook. Offensive stereotypes are funny.
