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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 119 | Political Correctness is Killing Entertainment Feat. The Quartering | Roaming Millennial: Uncensored

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Hamby, also known as the Quartering, joins to discuss the effect of political correctness on entertainment media. Whether it's Apu from the Simpsons or a feminist character in a video game, critics are adamant in pushing social justice into what we play and watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, commentator Jeremy Hamley, also known as the quartering, joins us to discuss social justice

0:11.0

and political correctness when it comes to our media.

0:13.2

I'm roaming millennial and you're watching uncensored. Hi Jeremy, thank you so much for coming out to talk to us.

0:23.0

Thanks for having to be here. Hi Jeremy, thank you so much for coming on to talk to us.

0:33.0

Hey, thanks for having me, glad to be here.

0:35.0

Yeah, so, you know, looking through the videos that you do and watching them, I see that you're

0:39.0

interested in media, you know, video games, a series and things like that, which I think think is great because we've done a few movie reviews on this show too

0:46.3

Love to bring my producer Liam to the theater. He complains a ton about how movies are just propaganda we have a great time

0:52.3

So something in the realm of

0:54.2

entertainment that I think a lot of people who are keeping up with this whole

0:57.5

political correctness thing have been talking about is Apu from the Simpsons. So he was recently, I mean or at least it was announced that they're going to be cutting him from the show based on him being a harmful stereotype.

1:09.0

In your opinion, how much has Apu made you hate Indian people? Your thoughts?

1:15.0

Well, yeah, I mean if there's a number less than zero, I suppose if it was at zero before and when you multiply zero by anything then it's I guess still zero.

1:25.0

So yeah, it's been interesting.

1:28.0

It's interesting that they choose to target a poo as offensive when really every major character on that show is a stereotype

1:36.8

that's kind of why it works. And that's what I thought was so interesting about

1:40.2

the criticism of the show especially that character is that like you said

1:43.2

literally every single character is a stereotype there's someone called

1:46.8

Cleetus the Slack jog yokele on on that show right we have bumblebee man of the Italian

1:52.2

I guess restaurant owner who says stuff like mamia which I've never heard an actual

1:57.2

Italian person say why do you think the character of Apu specifically got so much heat because of a show full of stereotypes it seems like he's just like a drop in the bucket when it comes to being offensive.

2:07.5

Yeah, I think the what really started out was some documentary that was out maybe a year or two ago.

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