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Speedy Gonzales: Banned In America, Loved In Mexico

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Shantanu

Banned
I just saw this on today's PC Patrol at Fox News:



<< Speedy's Exile

Cartoon character Speedy Gonzales has been deemed an offensive ethnic stereotype of Mexicans, and has been off the air since the Cartoon Network became the sole U.S. broadcaster of old Warner Brothers cartoons in late 1999.

Speedy's association with a coterie of drunken Mexican mice who lounge around the village, and his lazy cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, portrays Mexicans in a bad light, the network believes.

"We're not about pushing the boundary," said Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg. "We're not HBO. We have a diverse audience and we have an impressionable audience." >>



But the great irony of the story is:



<< There is one place where Speedy can still be found zipping across TV screens, however, a place where the crude stereotypes he embodies don't touch a cultural nerve. That place is the Cartoon Network Latin America (including Mexico), where Speedy Gonzales is hugely popular. >>

 
April Fools



<< What about Pepe LePew? His chasing of unwilling females surely sends the message to children that's it's OK to stalk and attack them if they resist," he wrote in an e-mail. "Plus, because he's French, does this mean that all Frenchmen are sexual predators?" >>



Plus all Frenchmen stink? 😀
 


<< It is not an April fools thing. It was posted here a little while back which means REPOST!!!! >>



Its still funny though hehe
 


<< It is not an April fools thing. It was posted here a little while back which means REPOST!!!! >>


I haven't heard about him being popular in Mexico and Latin America though...that's pretty funny 🙂
 
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Russ, NCNE
 
That's just stupid. Then all cartoons should be banned.

Remind me to sit on a keg of TnT then have my next of kin sue WB because my ass dis not just turn black, and burn my tail. It blew me to little pieces.
 
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