So Long Apu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi4ujBB7gvw

Social Justice Warriors lack many things,  but certainly their humorlessness is one of their defining characteristics:

Long-running character Apu is going to be written out of the Simpsons forever. There has been controversy about the character, who speaks in a stereotypical Indian accent, for several years. Earlier this year producer Adi Shankar launched a spec script competition looking to somehow subvert or possibly put an end to the character. Shankar doesn’t work on the Simpsons but was hoping that if the idea caught on and the spec script was good enough, maybe the show would embrace the idea and produce it. But today Shankar told Indie Wire that he has heard the Simpsons plans to simply drop the character without much fanfare:

Go here to read the rest.  The Simpsons have been on the air for almost three decades.  Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons is an agnostic and liberal.  Leftists, in the fullness of time, always eventually eat their own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMR73D33YU

The Puritans in England in the Seventeenth Century, when they were in power, shut down the theaters and banned dancing and other amusements.  Amazing how revolutionaries often follow the same trajectory when it comes to entertainment.  For those consumed with the desire to make Heaven on Earth, nothing can ever be beyond their control.