Outrage du jour.

Via Independent:

There’s not many TV shows born in the ‘90s that haven’t, rightfully, come under fire in recent years for their offensive nature.

There’s FRIENDS with an always all-white, casually homophobic cast; Sex and The City with its reduction of women down to four people who do nothing but fail the Bechdel Test and slobber over Dior mules all day; even Will & Grace – that revolutionary gay show – has been blasted for playing into stereotypes. Shocker.

The most recent of these once family favourites to come under the harsh fire of us critical millennials is, believe it or not, The Simpsons. While it’s unlikely that a TV show that could run for 28 years, produce 29 seasons and 630 episodes wouldn’t get the odd thing wrong, folks are rightly calling out The Simpsons for far more long-running and offensive issues.

The conversation started last year on the back of Hari Kondabolu’s documentary The Problem With Apu, which took aim at uncovering how a reductive portrayal of an Indian person as a shopkeeper and constant punch-line informed so much of his treatment by other people growing up. […]

Are we saying you shouldn’t be watching The Simpsons? Yes, probably. But if you choose to carry on – make sure it’s with one eye on the subtle stereotypes it uses to represent certain characters.