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i have never seen a yellow person except in cartoons and emoji
by virologist 5y ago
i have never seen a yellow person except in cartoons and emoji
- SamBam 5y agoWhat race do you think the yellow characters on the Simpsons are supposed to represent?
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- fuzzer37 5y agoA null race that doesn't exist
- moate 5y agoSo the majority of people are yellow, and yet we still have black/brown characters (Bleeding Gums Murphy, Apu, Carl, Dr. Hibbert, etc) and most East Asian characters were given almond shaped eyes. It's almost like there's a correspondence with the "average" yellow Simpson's character and some real world US ethnic majority...
- SamBam 5y agoSo, Carl Carlson, Dr. Hibbert and Bleeding Gums Murphy are pretty clearly Black, Apu is pretty clearly Indian, Bumble Bee man is pretty clearly Mexican, but all the yellow characters are... "a null race?" Despite all clearly having signifiers of white people, and several of them clearly ethnically Italian or German, and most of the rest being Waspy? Does this not simply speak of what you perceive as the "null race" or, perhaps, default race? And when the Simpson's producers said a few years ago that they were going to stop voicing non-white characters with non-white actors, who did they find to voice all the "null-race" characters?
- toto444 5y agoHomo Sapiens?
- thejoeflow 5y ago*Homer Sapiens
- SamBam 5y agoThat's a species.
- johnhenry 5y agoIf anyone on this thread has any doubt, here is Homer Simpson explicitly declaring that he is a "white male": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28ZB1t6gg8&ab_channel=MostlySimpsons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28ZB1t6gg8&ab_channel=Mostl...