people just decided to get mad over Apu for no reason

He was presented as hard working, smarter than the average character.

• He graduated first in his class out of seven million students at the Calcutta Institute of Technology (Caltech) before moving to the United States.

• Doctorate Institution: He earned his Ph.D. from the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.

• Thesis Project: His doctoral dissertation took nine years to complete and consisted of 200,000 precisely ordered punch cards that ran the world's first computer program for tic-tac-toe.

Some assholes tried to cancel Azaria.