People feel let down by 'The Simpsons' response to Apu stereotyping

The Simpsons has responded to the Apu stereotyping controversy, and not everyone is down with how it was handled.

In the fifteenth episode of Season 29, "No Good Read Goes Unpunished," Marge reads Lisa "her favourite book ever," The Princess in the Garden, which has troubling stereotypes of Irishmen and South Americans.

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Aghast at the depictions she didn't recognise as a youngster, Marge edits the book to make it ostensibly less offensive for this day and age. The book's lead character Clara is now a "cisgender girl," who releases wild horses and fights net neutrality.  Read more...

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