Speedy Gonzales cancelled

Speedy's been cancelled for a long time...

Go!... Go!... Gomez!

He can enjoy a peaceful retirement with the Frito Bandito.

I'm beyond outraged. My brunch is ruined.

What about his cousin Slow Poke Rodriguez?

How do we feel about this pissy little queen?

El Kabong, Hong Kong Phooey, and Snagglepuss are all gone too.

Do kids even watch that stuff anymore?

Mexicans love Speedy. He always wins.

The Frito Bandito must be quaking in his huaraches.

There are many Latinos who are going hard in defending Speedy and Slowpoke Rodriguez and saying - rightfully so - that it's not for non-Latinos to dictate what they should be offended by.

What's next?

The right looks to cancel Peanuts, because Peppermint Patty indocrinated many into the lesbian lifestyle?

Garfield because it stereotyped cats as fat and lazy?

It's a fucking cartoon.

Who will deliver chocolate bunnies to los ninos now?

Twitter is really the worst invention in modern times.

The Latinx pendejxs don’t get a vote on this.

Cancelling has jumped the shark. It's going to continue to get so over the top that people will stop caring about the real issues.

these cartoons don't make you a racist or a rapist. Many other things can contribute to people being rotten at the core but this type of SJW shit is more toxic than these cartoons ever could be.

[quote]The right looks to cancel Peanuts, because Peppermint Patty indocrinated many into the lesbian lifestyle?

I imagine there will soon be a reckoning over Pig Pen -- "how dare we denigrate the dirty!"

Pig Pen will be seen as a slander on the poor.

I thought Snagglepuss was the patron saint of Datalounge?

A pink cat with gay voice!

Are they being cancelled because they are seen as homophobic?

Yes, some people can't afford to take showers on a regular basis, or don't have access to showers, and cleanliness is a legacy of toxic white male culture, anyway.

Morocco mole is another. Can we cancel Clutch Cargo for being creepy? How about Daktari? That’s very offensive to lions with vision problems.

Perpetuating stereotypes indeed is racist, so yea. Bye racists.

There is a whole cast of characters that can be seen as racist if one is so concrete and literal, i.e., dumb, and can't see the human truths and comedy in them (Elmer Fudd, Sponge Bob, Daffy Duck, Homer Simpson, Wile E. Coyote, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, etc.). What a bleak, miserable, beige humorless world we are headed for if we let the woke amongst us project their own bullshit on us. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. Better yet, cancel 'em.

@r23, "Are you Mexican, [R22]? "

Why would you ask that?

Pepe LaPew is having his “Me Too” moment.

Speaking of which, it's time they closed Mexico-land at Epcot.

In fact, maybe every land at Epcot.

@r26, even as a little kid Pepe Le Pew gave me the creeps. I always felt sorry for that cat he kept molesting

Mushu, they’re coming for you next, you in danger, girl!

R26 Pepe Le'Pew taught American children a valuable lesson. Namely that the French are creepy.

Please tell me Quick Draw McGraw's sidekick, Baba Looie is safe; I loved that little guy.

This is all to drum up publicity and get people watching Warner cartoons again.

Neither the ANIMANIACS reboot nor the new LOONEY TUNES show much interest in political-correctness.

First they came for Uncle Remus...

Warner Brothers owns the right to [italic]Growing Pains, Full House[/italic] and [italic]Friends[/italic], and those shows need to be canceled for good and removed from circulation because they are far more problematic than anything that ever came out of Termite Terrace. Anybody who thinks otherwise should be locked up permanently and involuntarily.

This is getting beyond ridiculous. There is going to be a huge backlash against these whining little woke millennials who are outraged by absolutely everything. They clearly don't have enough to do.

Mexico is a product of white imperialism to begin with.

R36 yeah, except it’s not Millennials perpetuating this. It’s Gen Z, and their stupid helicopter parents.

The Spanish conquest of Turtle Island would not be possible without the money and property they stole from Jews during the inquisition. And the fact that they paid Italians to do the dirty work makes it doubly imperialistic.

and that backlash will not be good for us gays either. This is just giving the deplorables more and more fodder.

At this point, being part of any non-Black race constitutes performative whiteness, and is that a form of white supremacy.

R41 tell that to any indigenous peoples.

Cancel The Simpsons while they are at it. It's a parade of stereotypes. But Homer is an accurate representation of a white male so you can keep him.

In all seriousness, this is stupid.

R44, you understand it exactly correctly.

You are not allowed to enjoy any cultural artifact, unless and until it passes muster with the most seriously deranged and damaged people in our society.

As a Mexican American, I am beyond pissed off that they would cancel Speedy!! He is one of the only fucking Mexicans I can see on TV. It’s sad when a cartoon mouse is some of the only representation we have and they want to do away with him, too.

R9 that reminds me of the old Charlie Chan movies that were favorites in pre-Communist China because the hero was Chinese (though played by non-Chinese) and he was the smartest guy in the room.

Speedy was cancelled back in 1999, then un-cancelled a few years later:

[quote] Feeling that the character presented an offensive Mexican stereotype, Cartoon Network shelved Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999 (as a subsidiary of Time Warner, Cartoon Network is a corporate sibling to Warner Bros.). In an interview with Fox News on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, "It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ethnic stereotypes."[6]

[quote] Despite such controversy over potentially offensive characterizations, Speedy Gonzales remained a popular character in Latin America.[6] Many Hispanic people remembered him fondly as a quick-witted, heroic Mexican character who always got the best of his opponents, at a time when such depictions of Latin Americans were rare in popular entertainment.[7] The Hispanic-American rights organization League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy a cultural icon, and thousands of users registered their support of the character on the hispaniconline.com message boards. Fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air resulted in the return of the animated shorts to Cartoon Network in 2002.[8]

As long as El Nombre is still with us.

That buff gerbil was my childhood hero.

^^though apparently they changed the fucking theme song for no reason. The original was so good, why mess with perfection?

R50, I never understood why he was called "El Nombre" rather than "El Numero".

I quite liked 'El Hombre'

Boris and Natasha, watch your backs!

R52 yeah hahahahaha idk. Never noticed that. It’s probably just because it sounds cooler that way.

If they come for Zorro, we riot.

WTH? Who doesn’t like the ‘Pizzariba!’ song?

Funny no-on objects to the character named Chicken Hawk, or that fact that he has a song about how much he’d like to eat Foghorn.

Guess it goes over peoples’ heads.

[quote]But Homer is Harvard elites projecting their own dysfunction and degeneracy onto the American white male so you can keep him.

Fixed.

This might sound a stupid question, but does Bugs speak with a Brooklyn accent?

I’m not an American, so I don’t know U.S. accents very well, but to my ear Bugs speaks just like Joey Wheeler of YU-GI-OH! who has a stereotypical Brooklyn accent.

Speedy's cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez will be cancelled for being a pothead

None of this shit is canceled. Criticism is not cancelation.

Talk of canceling things like this has already jumped the shark. I was in a meeting regarding Diversity and Inclusion and I sat there as I listened to the D&I team--the very people you'd expect to be in favor of any inkling of "canceling"--and they mafe fun of these types of "cancels". Everyone agreed it's understandable that some stories and characters and tropes offend but at some point the pendulum will swung right back and this just seems silly. The dangerous side is that the perception that someone is canceling a movie or story or character you love can have the opposite effect the "canceller" is aiming for: watch how deeply entrenched people get. When you say something they love offends you--a stranger-- people will usually become more protective of that "offensive" thing and think the canceler is "ridiculous". They aren't going to stop loving it abd if you try to take it away, instead of empathy for you, they grow to resent you and will work against you.

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