Including but not limited to Apu, the pervasive caricaturing of brown skinned people in Western media as nothing but cringeworthy clowns or treacherous villains is hurtful to me personally. I’m sorry that the feelings of folks like myself “kills all the fun” for you, but I’m thankful that society is no longer held hostage to old fashioned tastes.

> Plenty of Indians thought that Apu was fine as he was.

An apology was due to the rest of the Indians & South Asians who didn’t think the caricature ‘Apu’ was “fine”, and one was issued; plus even better, the show runners have learned that you can actually make comedy without minimising or othering cultural / ethnic groups. Great outcome.