The Simpsons, like Family Guy, might have offered some protests against wokeness, but ultimately was forced to bend the knee. And one of the tokens of submission was making sure the cartoon’s voice actors matched the race of their characters. At least when they were any color other than yellow.

Harry Shearer voices many characters on The Simpsons and was recently replaced as the voice of Dr. Hibbert.

“Folk say the show has become woke in recent years and one of my characters has been affected,” Shearer said on The Times of London. “I voiced the black physician, Dr. Hibbert, who I based on Bill Cosby. Back then he was known as the ‘whitest black man on television.’ Then, a couple of years ago, I received an email saying they’d employed a black actor, who then copied my voice. The result is a black man imitating a white man imitating the whitest black man on TV.”

What did having a black man imitating a white man imitating a black man achieve? Nothing useful except virtue signaling. And of course policing and abiding by whatever rules the Left sets at any given time.

The original rule which started out as a stand against blackface then decided that any portrayal of a minority by a white person in any context was wrong (but not the reverse obviously.)

The rules may be random and senseless, but the more irrational a rule, the more power is gained from enforcing it.