Can Anyone Explain why Speedy Gonzalez Gets Brutally Cancelled -- BUT....

[White 6]

.... but steve martin, chevy chase, and martin short are stilling pulling down 6 figure royalties on this 1986 mockery of everything Mexican?? I needed an "old fashion" laugh and watched this for first time airing on cable.. "The 3 Amigos".



Seems to me that Speedy was kinder to Mexicans and did not appropriate their culture as clearly as this.

The cultural purge has no brains or no consistency. Just massive hypocrisy and double standards.

Please someone explain why nobody is demanding equal treatment..

Sorry, but The Three Amigos simply sucked from the get go. What's this about canceling Speedy Gonzalez, a truly great cartoon back in the day?

 

[Yarddog]

.... but steve martin, chevy chase, and martin short are stilling pulling down 6 figure royalties on this 1986 mockery of everything Mexican?? I needed an "old fashion" laugh and watched this for first time airing on cable.. "The 3 Amigos".



Seems to me that Speedy was kinder to Mexicans and did not appropriate their culture as clearly as this.

The cultural purge has no brains or no consistency. Just massive hypocrisy and double standards.

Please someone explain why nobody is demanding equal treatment..

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people, and in The Three Amigos, the ridicule is focused on three unaware mindless actors. You couldn't figure that out?

thats true, the joke was always on the Three Amigos. I liked the movie when it came out. mostly because i grew up watching the original SNL and liked those actors.

Mexicans in the movie were designed to fit a certain stereotype as well, no doubt there is someone somewhere who finds it offensive. It was a movie devoid of politics, I doubt that movie could even be made today unless it contained a certain amount of political woke'ness in it.

 

[Rocko]

Saw that movie but don’t remember a thing about it. Speedy was one of my favorite cartoon characters growing up. But the all time best was Donald Duck.

Andale! Andale! Arriba! Arriba!

I love it when Donald Duck would come unglued and throw a ferocious tantrum.

I still do that now and then.

One of my best birthday presents was a DVD featuring Donald in the Army. Hilarious

 

[flacaltenn]

.... but steve martin, chevy chase, and martin short are stilling pulling down 6 figure royalties on this 1986 mockery of everything Mexican?? I needed an "old fashion" laugh and watched this for first time airing on cable.. "The 3 Amigos".



Seems to me that Speedy was kinder to Mexicans and did not appropriate their culture as clearly as this.

The cultural purge has no brains or no consistency. Just massive hypocrisy and double standards.

Please someone explain why nobody is demanding equal treatment..

Sorry, but The Three Amigos simply sucked from the get go. What's this about canceling Speedy Gonzalez, a truly great cartoon back in the day?

They tried to ban him years ago, but Hispanics loved him too much -- Cartoon Network has exclusive rights and decided to ice him., ALL the "looney tunes" are now endangered species due to political correctness. Peppy LaPew is also cancelled but APPARENTLY it's entirely kosher for the 3 amigos to mock Mexicans mercilessly,, I NEED someone to explain who the mental midgets in charge of this cultural purge are thinking...

And again -- Hispanics are outraged at the cancellation.. These little hitlers are true morons without any tether to reality,.,, And they now RUN America apparently.

 

[westwall]

.... but steve martin, chevy chase, and martin short are stilling pulling down 6 figure royalties on this 1986 mockery of everything Mexican?? I needed an "old fashion" laugh and watched this for first time airing on cable.. "The 3 Amigos".



Seems to me that Speedy was kinder to Mexicans and did not appropriate their culture as clearly as this.

The cultural purge has no brains or no consistency. Just massive hypocrisy and double standards.

Please someone explain why nobody is demanding equal treatment..

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people, and in The Three Amigos, the ridicule is focused on three unaware mindless actors. You couldn't figure that out?

Did you even watch the cartoons?

Speedy Gonzales , he is shrewd MOUSE, energetic, determined, and always wins.

No, of course not. bulldumb is a hack, doesn't bother to check sources or verify claims. Speedy is exactly as you say, blisteringly smart, fast, and focused, and ALWAYS came out on top.

 

[flacaltenn]

.... but steve martin, chevy chase, and martin short are stilling pulling down 6 figure royalties on this 1986 mockery of everything Mexican?? I needed an "old fashion" laugh and watched this for first time airing on cable.. "The 3 Amigos".



Seems to me that Speedy was kinder to Mexicans and did not appropriate their culture as clearly as this.

The cultural purge has no brains or no consistency. Just massive hypocrisy and double standards.

Please someone explain why nobody is demanding equal treatment..

Sorry, but The Three Amigos simply sucked from the get go. What's this about canceling Speedy Gonzalez, a truly great cartoon back in the day?

It did suck, but I couldn't turn the channel.. Sometimes awful is awfully funny.,.

Like SNLive itself.. Even in the GOOD days. They must HATE production meetings now. Probably fist fights breaking out on skit design.,.

 

[flacaltenn]

That movie was unbelievably crappy to have had so many talented people in it. I don't remember it unfairly depicting Mexicans in a bad light though. I seem to remember everyone being smart except for the foolish "heroes".

Of course you dont have an issue because it's Hollywood and they have license to offend and "appropriate culture", but anything classically campy has to be burned to the stake because Speedy and Pepe provoked the historical hatred of the Mexicans and the French, just like Trump provoked hatred of Asians because he insisted on calling it the "China virus"..,

 

[flacaltenn]

.... but steve martin, chevy chase, and martin short are stilling pulling down 6 figure royalties on this 1986 mockery of everything Mexican?? I needed an "old fashion" laugh and watched this for first time airing on cable.. "The 3 Amigos".



Seems to me that Speedy was kinder to Mexicans and did not appropriate their culture as clearly as this.

The cultural purge has no brains or no consistency. Just massive hypocrisy and double standards.

Please someone explain why nobody is demanding equal treatment..

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people, and in The Three Amigos, the ridicule is focused on three unaware mindless actors. You couldn't figure that out?

Did you even watch the cartoons?

Speedy Gonzales , he is shrewd MOUSE, energetic, determined, and always wins.

No, of course not. bulldumb is a hack, doesn't bother to check sources or verify claims. Speedy is exactly as you say, blisteringly smart, fast, and focused, and ALWAYS came out on top.

.... and probably the CAUSE of the rise in ADHD diagnoses...

 

[flacaltenn]

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people,

Lers see

Because it depicts Mexicans as lazy, dim witted and slow
Hence the speedy mouse

View attachment 471411

AH -- finally a brilliant poster with the answer,. Except that's not SPEEDY, SPEEDY is the hero and role model for Latinx kids. And he's mucho rapido than any Gringo cat.,

Get real..

 

[occupied]

That movie was unbelievably crappy to have had so many talented people in it. I don't remember it unfairly depicting Mexicans in a bad light though. I seem to remember everyone being smart except for the foolish "heroes".

Of course you dont have an issue because it's Hollywood and they have license to offend and "appropriate culture", but anything classically campy has to be burned to the stake because Speedy and Pepe provoked the historical hatred of the Mexicans and the French, just like Trump provoked hatred of Asians because he insisted on calling it the "China virus"..,

Why are you getting personally insulted by this? Times change and the world moves on while old farts sit around and complain. At least that has not changed.

 

[rightwinger]

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people,

Lers see

Because it depicts Mexicans as lazy, dim witted and slow
Hence the speedy mouse

View attachment 471411

AH -- finally a brilliant poster with the answer,. Except that's not SPEEDY, SPEEDY is the hero and role model for Latinx kids. And he's mucho rapido than any Gringo cat.,

Get real..

It is not how they depict Speedy, but how they depict other Mexicans

 

[daveman]

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people...

Oh, look. Yet another white liberal dictating to minorities what they should be offended by.

Turns out Mexican-Americans think you're full of shit.

Column: Why do so many Mexican Americans defend Speedy Gonzales?


By GUSTAVO ARELLANOCOLUMNIST
MARCH 17, 2021 6 AM PT
He blazed through my childhood like a sombrero-clad comet, terrorizing gringo villains in the name of us downtrodden Mexicans.
His war cry went straight from our televisions and movie screens into our hearts and minds. My family and so many others cheered on his exploits, imagining ourselves as soldiers in his brigade. Polite society told us we shouldn’t worship this bad hombre because he made Mexicans look bad. So they tried everything possible to dim his star — but we Mexicans always fought loudly against any attempts to cancel our compadre.
Pancho Villa? Emiliano Zapata? Vicente Fernandez?
Try Speedy Gonzales.

The Warner Bros. cartoon mouse debuted in 1953 and immediately became a hit on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. His plots were always simple — Speedy antagonized Sylvester the Cat and other assorted felines, usually in a dispute involving cheese — but effective. The raza rodent quickly picked up awards (four Oscar nominations and one win in just six years) but also critics who saw Speedy for what he is:
Problematic. A stereotype. No doubt about it.
His name comes from a popular 1950s-era anti-Mexican sex joke. The non-Latino voice actor Mel Blanc voiced “the fastest mouse in all of Mexico” with a stereotypical accent and nonsense Spanglish. The typical Speedy plot casts him as a thief and a cad, and his fellow Mexican mice as lazy, drunk and happily living amongst trash. Did I mention the sombrero? It’s as big as his body. Sombreros are big — but not that big.
Speedy turned into a pariah in the decades after his heyday, placed by Hollywood executives and pundits in the same racist purgatory of Old Hollywood as Stepin Fetchit, “We don’t need no steenkin’ badges,” and Charlie Chan. ABC banned him from its airwaves during the 1980s “because the title character presents a stereotypical image that is not offset by any other Latino television characters,” according to a 1981 Los Angeles Times story. The Cartoon Network did the same in the late 1990s. Recently, New York Times columnist Charles Blow said Speedy cartoons “helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk and lethargic Mexicans.”

And yet time and time again, Mexicans — the very group you’d think would hate Speedy the most — rose to defend his honor.
During the 1990s, college students cast Speedy as a proto-Zapatista who fought against American imperialism before it was cool to do so. In 2002, the League of United Latin American Citizens asked the Cartoon Network to free Speedy from his jail — a spokesperson told Fox News, “How far do you push political correctness before you can’t say anything about anything anymore?”
In the wake of Blow’s columns, Mexicans famous and not spoke out on social media against those who dared decry their man. “U can’t catch me cancel culture. I’m the fastest mouse in all of Mexico,” tweeted comedian Gabriel Iglesias, who’s voicing Speedy in the upcoming “Space Jam” reboot.

“We LOVE Speedy because he’s smart and fast,” wrote Eugenio Derbez, another comic who will voice him in his upcoming Speedy feature.
Meanwhile, just a handful of Latinos were nominated for this year’s Academy Awards — but Iglesias, Derbez, and other Speedy defenders don’t seem to care. I actually get it: In the 100-plus years of Tinseltown, he remains the most popular and successful Mexican character ever created. When we don’t have much, we gotta protect what we have, you know?
Speedy’s four Academy Award nominations tie him with Anthony Quinn for most ever by an actor of Mexican descent. His sole win, for an eponymous 1955 cartoon, places Speedy behind Quinn’s two Oscars for most earned by a Mexican actor… because no other Mexican man has ever won an Oscar for acting ever.
Chris Rock put this outrage best in a 2014 Hollywood Reporter essay where he described Los Angeles as a place where “there’s this acceptance that Mexicans are going to take care of white people ... that doesn’t exist anywhere else.” Decrying the lack of representation in Hollywood, Rock cracked “You’re in L.A., you’ve got to try not to hire Mexicans.”

Instead, Hollywood hires Speedy. What other “Mexican” thespian has two big-budget projects slated for next year? Not Edward James Olmos or Salma Hayek.
I’m no spoilsport or wokoso (a portmanteau of “woke” and a mocoso — a snot-nosed brat) about the cute rascal. I never saw a stereotype when I first saw his cartoons as a boy — I saw my culture at a time when the English-language media didn’t bother with us outside of crime and immigration. He danced our dances and dressed like a jarocho (a native of Veracruz) and sounded like my country cousins, to be honest. He was the only Mexican in Hollywood I knew who never lost — well, him and Cheech and Chong.
I love Speedy so much, I keep a large painting of him in my home office. His kind smile and brown skin takes me back to my childhood — and reminds me of where we as Mexicans exist today.
Of course we’re going to love Speedy — it’s not like we have a buffet of iconic animated heroes to choose from besides Dora the Explorer and Bender Bending Rodriguez from “Futurama.”
This unlikely love affair fascinates Louisiana State University history professor Stephen Andes, who’s working on an academic book about Speedy.
“It speaks about the robustness of Latino audiences who are taking the little bit that they were given and finding something they connected with, and then making Speedy into a hero,” Andes said. “If Gabriel [Iglesias] feels like it means something to play Speedy, I’m not going to tell him he can’t do that.”
Andes says that’s why Speedy shouldn’t be tossed into the same dustbin as his contemporaries the Frito Bandito, Jose Jimenez, or Blanc’s own Sy the Little Mexican character on “The Jack Benny Show.”
He points out that Mexican American animators worked on nearly half of the 47 Speedy Gonzales shorts, at a time where they were a rarity in Hollywood. In Latin America, audiences continue to love Speedy with little compunction because they accept him at face value — a Mexican mouse who makes a mockery out of Yankee pussygatos again and again.
“That’s not an excuse or a justification for ‘Oh, well if a Mexican American did something problematic, it, it’s all fine,” Andes says. “But that actually nuances his story. It needs to be acknowledged it was a really problematic bit of representation that Mexicans molded into an icon.”
Just don’t get me started about Speedy’s rat-faced cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez.

 

[Uncensored2008]

That movie was unbelievably crappy to have had so many talented people in it. I don't remember it unfairly depicting Mexicans in a bad light though. I seem to remember everyone being smart except for the foolish "heroes".

Speedy Gonzalez was always the smartest one in the room.

Nazis are petty fucks and suck. Cancel the Nazi scum.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people, and in The Three Amigos, the ridicule is focused on three unaware mindless actors. You couldn't figure that out?

Nah, you're lying as always.

You Nazi scum just attack anything and everything.

Fuck the Nazis

 

[Sunsettommy]

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people,

Lers see

Because it depicts Mexicans as lazy, dim witted and slow
Hence the speedy mouse

View attachment 471411

AH -- finally a brilliant poster with the answer,. Except that's not SPEEDY, SPEEDY is the hero and role model for Latinx kids. And he's mucho rapido than any Gringo cat.,

Get real..

It is not how they depict Speedy, but how they depict other Mexicans

They are CARTOON mice, not even close to the Three Amigos played by HUMAN BEINGS who were shallow crude and stupid.

Speedy is the hero to the rest of the mice who are always depicted as the innocent mice too weak to beat a large cat, but not Speedy. That is why they love Speedy so much, they celebrate his victory in every cartoon show.

Did you even watch the Cartoons at all,? you forget the hero and adoring mouse population paradigm?

 

[Gracie]

.... but steve martin, chevy chase, and martin short are stilling pulling down 6 figure royalties on this 1986 mockery of everything Mexican?? I needed an "old fashion" laugh and watched this for first time airing on cable.. "The 3 Amigos".



Seems to me that Speedy was kinder to Mexicans and did not appropriate their culture as clearly as this.

The cultural purge has no brains or no consistency. Just massive hypocrisy and double standards.

Please someone explain why nobody is demanding equal treatment..

Sorry, but The Three Amigos simply sucked from the get go. What's this about canceling Speedy Gonzalez, a truly great cartoon back in the day?

They tried to ban him years ago, but Hispanics loved him too much -- Cartoon Network has exclusive rights and decided to ice him., ALL the "looney tunes" are now endangered species due to political correctness. Peppy LaPew is also cancelled but APPARENTLY it's entirely kosher for the 3 amigos to mock Mexicans mercilessly,, I NEED someone to explain who the mental midgets in charge of this cultural purge are thinking...

And again -- Hispanics are outraged at the cancellation.. These little hitlers are true morons without any tether to reality,.,, And they now RUN America apparently.

The plus side is, so many hispanics being pissed off means loss of their coveted votes.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The plus side is, so many hispanics being pissed off means loss of their coveted votes.

Hopefully it means a backlash against the Nazi Party and their Cancel Culture.

 

[Moonglow]

After the last forty years of cancel culture from the woke drug war I don't care anymore.

 

[White 6]

After the last forty years of cancel culture from the woke drug war I don't care anymore.

You can talk. You live in a free man state.

 

[rightwinger]

Because Speedy Gonzalez tends to ridicule the Mexican people,

Lers see

Because it depicts Mexicans as lazy, dim witted and slow
Hence the speedy mouse

View attachment 471411

AH -- finally a brilliant poster with the answer,. Except that's not SPEEDY, SPEEDY is the hero and role model for Latinx kids. And he's mucho rapido than any Gringo cat.,

Get real..

It is not how they depict Speedy, but how they depict other Mexicans

They are CARTOON mice, not even close to the Three Amigos played by HUMAN BEINGS who were shallow crude and stupid.

Speedy is the hero to the rest of the mice who are always depicted as the innocent mice too weak to beat a large cat, but not Speedy. That is why they love Speedy so much, they celebrate his victory in every cartoon show.

Did you even watch the Cartoons at all,? you forget the hero and adoring mouse population paradigm?

No problem with adoring mice grateful to Speedy for rescuing them

But the depiction of those mice as Mexican was racist stereotypes