Pepe Le Pew is kinda rapey though

vraiblonde

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I remember thinking that as a kid, why doesn't the girl cat's big brother beat him up or something? Freaking stalker.

Of course the cultbots way overreact, like they overreact to everything, so instead of just giving Pepe the :eyebrow: they have to freak out and keen in the streets like the maniacs they are.
 
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RoseRed said:
Any mention of Speedy Gonzalez yet?
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I read an article about Speedy long ago. Remember they took him off the Cartoon Network. Anyway, Hispanics love Speedy because he always come out as the hero. I watched some with my grandson awhile back and it was funny. He was trying to smuggle cheese across the border to his drunk relatives.
 
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mitzi said:
I read an article about Speedy long ago. Remember they took him off the Cartoon Network. Anyway, Hispanics love Speedy because he always come out as the hero. I watched some with my grandson awhile back and it was funny. He was trying to smuggle cheese across the border to his drunk relatives.
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I haven't seen it since I was a child. 😂
 
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mitzi said:
I hadn't either. We were looking for old Looney Tunes on YT. I couldn't stand hearing the stupid new ones he watches now and told him I'd find him some real cartoons. So now when he comes over for a sleepover, we have a Looney Tune hour.
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RoseRed said:
Any mention of Speedy Gonzalez yet?
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Comedian Gabriel Iglesias Hits Back After NYT Columnist Says Cartoon Mouse ‘Speedy Gonzalez’ Stereotypes Mexicans





Speedy Gonzalez, along with several other cartoon characters, came under scrutiny on Wednesday after Charles Blow, a columnist for The New York Times, wrote a defense of those businesses and groups that have canceled six books by Theodor Seuss Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, over allegations of racism. Blow included in his column a handful of cartoons and other shows that he claimed pushed toxic culture. As Blow writes:
Some of the first cartoons I can remember included Pepé Le Pew, who normalized rape culture; Speedy Gonzales, whose friends helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk and lethargic Mexicans; and Mammy Two Shoes, a heavyset Black maid who spoke in a heavy accent.
Reruns were a fixture in the pre-cable days, so I watched children’s shows like Tarzan, about a half-naked white man in the middle of an African jungle who conquers and tames it and outwits the Black people there, who are all portrayed as primitive, if not savage. I watched the old “Our Gang” (“Little Rascals”) shorts in which the Buckwheat character summoned all the stereotypes of the pickaninny.
And of course, I watched westerns that regularly depicted Native Americans as aggressive, bloodthirsty savages against whom valiant white men were forced to fight.
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I thought creepy foreigners that had unique accents got a few extra points before they got cancelled. French, Spanish, Italian, Brit to name a few. So if Pepe spoke like Nicky from Newark, he'd be can Xed immediately. But because he's exotic, he gets a pass.

The reverse of this is when a female has an Eastern European accent. It bumps them up a notch in the fantasy factor. Zha Zha, Natashia, and Melania come to mind.
 
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mitzi said:
I read an article about Speedy long ago. Remember they took him off the Cartoon Network. Anyway, Hispanics love Speedy because he always come out as the hero. I watched some with my grandson awhile back and it was funny. He was trying to smuggle cheese across the border to his drunk relatives.
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Remember: left progs always know better what's good for minorities than minorities themselves.
 
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