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Once had a white girl yell at me because I accepted a dreamcatcher as a gift. Shit was stupid.
Apr 7, 2022 3:24 PM
sleeperkid
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Once had a white girl yell at me because I accepted a dreamcatcher as a gift. Shit was stupid.
JOKERZwild86
As a Mexican I love speedy Gonzalez and slowpoke
SinisterSlaw
It was only when Slowpoke Rodriguez talked to them that Cartoon Network decided it was in their best interest to reverse course.
Xenarion
Ok, but that wasn't people being offended. That was the studio self-censoring to avoid offending people, despite having got no complain.
ptothedubs
Can you clarify your caption? I’m wondering specifically if you got the dream catcher as a gift from a Native person.
learntotakejoke
We Hispanics were just proud that we were actually being included for once besides that little mouse was awesome lol
Grapeape2000
If Speedy is Hispanic, is Bugs White?
TevishSzat
Bugs is literally Groucho Marx
charondaboatman
Funny how people’s minds work. I grew up with all of those cartoons; I loved them, they were funny. And in the context of my youth 1/2
charondaboatman
2/2 they will always be funny.
JrHunting
What is there to "beware" exactly? A cartoon went away and then came back. What a drama queen
darkwingduckInaMiniSkirt
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
Absolutely loved this show
psycho3d
klaceo
Where's the rest??
psycho3d
Tio Choko! He's on YouTube!!! Lol!!! https://youtu.be/C6MbzLgCh00
klaceo
Thank you rabbit hole
Kitakita
cares for his family, not a single bad bone in his body, charming personality, Speedy is like one of the few 100% wholesome Looney Tunes
chefgeary313
What about slow poke
PieForme
Love speedy...I'm central American btw. One of my favorite characters
IWasACatAllAlong
Maybe ask the parties that are referred to, before you ban things ?
bixby66
This reminds me when they replaced Brock with Tracey in Pokémon because I guess the creators were afraid he would come off as racist.
ZeRootOfAllEvil
!Arriba arriba!
goodisunpopular
Stereotypes in #1 get a pass because 1) they're more cultural stereotypes rather than racial and 2) Speedy is the "hero/good guy"
Marine0311
A friend of mine is Hispanic and he uses Speedy as a logo for his business.
lindabelchersfirstcousin
Chicano Power!
Filanwizard
when this happened I think I heard the cartoon is in fact extremely popular in Latin America.
Filanwizard
my guess is they like to laugh at cartoon violence because its damn funny.
trotator
We love the guy, he was our bugs bunny and he was fast like the road runner. And now they won't show him in the new looney toons show.
darkwingduckInaMiniSkirt
You mean "The Looney Tunes Show"? or the more recent show on HBO Max? Because the former has him
trotator
the hbo max one.
KenjiKando
Yeah, isn't he like an everyman in that series or something?
trotator
Yeah in that one he is great. He has a pizzeria and a chain of frozen pizzas, he is lovely.
Silversalvation
Off topic or on topic, who knows. Fiance got a mean message in FFXIV for wearing horns as a cat girl. They said it was "au'ra black face."
fdlFan
Au Ra player here. WTF? Seems like messager is looking for a fight, or possibly taking RP to an unhealthy extreme.
Silversalvation
I know. Everyone i have told has said something similar.
Xenarion
Dafuk? Yeah, sounds like a troll.
Silversalvation
Dunno it was in a raid and they weren't trolling the mechanics.
fdlFan
I've had "social trolls" in duties before. One rando in the lvl 90 trial told me that my toon's last name was cool but his first name 1/
fdlFan
was stupid, or something like that. We cleared the trial with no more than usual difficulty; some folks like being jerks in party chat. 2/2
Silversalvation
Some people are weird
MathiasTolerain
And it could’ve just as easily been a prudent decision. The great part here is that CN reacted well and didn’t double down.
StanielRonathan
It's not really the true story though; CN acquired the rights to those old shorts and chose not to air what they thought wasn't popular-
StanielRonathan
Speedy's shorts were still broadcast on the Latin American networks. It wasn't trying to sidestep outrage machines. Similar reasons were why
StanielRonathan
Pepe le Pew hadn't had a new short made for him in 50+ years, getting typically nonspeaking cameos at best: he was never a popular character
StanielRonathan
all the way back to his 1945 debut.
MathiasTolerain
Interesting - more of a popularoty contest then. There *ARE* shorts from popular characters that cannot be aired due to, well, uhh, look:
PiercedViking
Had so many white women tell me I can't have an opinion about the Will Smith slap because I'm not black. Never stopped them, though!
itsjustplaid
Wait. There are people who actually looked at that incident and thought "race"? Talk about telling on yourself.
Drix1942
Whenever someone yells "Cultural appropriation!" on the internet my first thought is always "That's cultural appreciation, you dumb fuck."
Xenarion
Yeah. Cultural appropriation would be to claim one's culture as your own, or to use something that has a restrictive meaning in a >
Xenarion
> culture without respecting it, like Amerindians' chief hats, that have to be earned.
Pheehelm
Back around maybe 2014ish, if you'd told me there were a bunch of people on the Internet indignant over white people appropriating (1/2)
Pheehelm
(2/2) things from non-white cultures, I'd have assumed you meant white nationalists.
RainOubliette
Speedy was a mouse of good character and a proper role model. I can see why he was missed.
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RainOubliette
In the Looney Tunes Show on CN Speedy owned a pizza restaurant. Very respectable.
dukegonzo
Rumor has it he was also a top shagger.
RainOubliette
He’s a Robin Hood kind of guy. I can see why he’d get a lot of girls. Plus, in a later series, he owns a restaurant.
IWasACatAllAlong
Not a bottom shagger?
dukegonzo
I definitely feel he would be switch in that sense.
ZebraThree
Tumescentpie
Being offended on behalf of other people is an annoying part of left leaning ideologies. But it is still better than the right wing version
darkwingduckInaMiniSkirt
One "gringo" rabbit in question:
jmartkdr
The “she ain’t *that* hot” face
whhy
notatranslator
MysteriousKaos
SCPDankChief
critausy
AmHumanNotLizardMan
What does gringos mean?
ZebraThree
It’s like honky, but in Spanish.
IOnlyNeedOneBall
A foreigner, typically white of European decent. Derogatory, but barely in my opinion.
Marsupialmessiah
In some south american countries a gringo is a tall white, dark haired italian stud.
AmHumanNotLizardMan
Ah so it's a specifically mexican dialect word? Thanks for the info!
Marsupialmessiah
Use varies with country, most of mexico and central america is derogatory but not in some south america
6313326
More info: https://www.spanish.academy/blog/what-is-the-meaning-of-gringo-the-history-and-origin-of-the-term/
DocWino
Gringo is not bad, pretty much means “white guy”, its descriptive. Pinche in front is definitely derogatory.
DocWino
Go ask the gringo would just be telling you to talk to the white guy. Like us saying “the white or black dude over there”. Not an offense.
FatBastardVegetarian
I've asked five different Hispanic folks where the term "Gringo" came from. Got five COMPLETELY different answers. The answers were fun.
FatBastardVegetarian
Probably none are right but don't want to google it and mess up my fun.
6313326
FWIW, even goog sources are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.spanish.academy/blog/what-is-the-meaning-of-gringo-the-history-and-origin-of-the-term
FatBastardVegetarian
I figured there were a bunch of stories without any chance of choice of real attribution.
FatBastardVegetarian
One of the stories was about an American General Green. They wanted him to return home. Green-Go being shouted. I swear. What I was told.
YuffieK
Slowpoke Rodriguez though...
hewhocontrolsthespice
Legend.
CorvidPrime
My old co-manager where I worked was from Mexico and LOVED Slowpoke Rodriguez… That’s just one person, but still true.
ToSisPoS
He pack a gun…
SupportGeek
Came here looking for this, thank you, have an updoot.
2074red2074
It's okay to portray a stereotype as long as it's clear that it doesn't represent the whole. Think of the most stereotypical white guy 1/2
2074red2074
you can imagine. There is a white guy who literally acts EXACTLY like that. Slowpoke Rodriguez is one lazy mouse out of hundreds shown. 2/2
chefgeary313
So sleepy
SinisterSlaw
Slowpoke Rodriguez was my friends big brothers gang name in high school lol.
dorkx9
That's where the offense came from. The character itself wasn't offensive but it gave asshats a stereotype to gawk at.
Xenarion
Well, his character is only negative if you perceive being slow and easy going as a negative thing.
IMainReinhardt
My partner calls her tio Slowpoke Rodriguez. She says every family has one
sleeperkid
As my dad once said: “EVERY culture has their version of a Slowpoke Rodriguez.”
13andido
thedarksith
Soy me! Slowpoke Rodrigo!
JLB36602
As an American, I don't get it.
Skr121
Wait 3 days
Whitemannatee
It is because he is so fast and you are so slow.
JLB36602
Whoah whoah whoah....slow down
Whyamihereagain
duktayp
Not "banned", CN acquired the rights, but chose not to show the 'toon for fear of offending
wadatahmydamie
Yup. This post is reactionary garbage when it could have been something useful
unclesporky
The rest about the Hispanic community coming together to defend him and register their support online, which brought him back, is true.
unclesporky
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales#Concern_about_stereotypes
Someshithead241
You could say, that they chose to ban it from being shown.
Kitehammer
Reductive English doesn't make you seem smart.
SherMattLockSmith
It wasn't being shown because they didn't think it was popular enough, not due to them believing it was offensive. It showed on CN in (1)
SherMattLockSmith
(2) Latin America, but not the USA.
GrumpyOldMillennial
I remember it being a big hubbub basck then, same as when they canceled the taco bell dog for somehow also being racially insensitive.
GrumpyOldMillennial
But then again I was a kid and had better things to do than care about that stuff so my memory isn't the sharpest. I also remember the OJ
GrumpyOldMillennial
Trial and all I can really remember is hearing it talked about and thing about the little oj containers from mcdonalds.
RufusPimperton
Taco Bell dog was cancelled for one reason: it didn't sell enough tacos. It was beloved regardless so people believed the myth.
MidoryMoon
It wasn't even about offending, it just wasn't considered popular enough. It was popular with CN Latin America, where they continued to air
astrangehop
I just learned there's a CNLA. Do they have like.. Spanish dubs of Inuyasha and stuff?
Negnarholf
It's nonstop reruns of dubbed dragonball
onlyhalfghost
so...CN when it was good, then, just missing the Johnny Bravo
astrangehop
Awesome.
Dagordae
Isn’t that where we god the infamous Big Green dub?
Zeroforwinger
Not popular enough? I’ll take Speedy over Roadrunner any day.
5amNonsense
Is there anything dumber than a network exec deciding what is or isn't popular enough?
RayneOfSalt
A network exec killing something popular because of lgbtq+ characters.
5amNonsense
Gonna guess that your username is relevant here. RIP Owl House
duktayp
correct. Also, I'm not remembering any "Mass Protests", other than trolling online
parkerh17
I could see it, they tried to paint the end paw patrol trolling as real.
unclesporky
You don't have to remember something for it to have happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales#Concern_about_stereotypes
anescient
ok well hold on now because it sounds like you're saying this story on the internet is bullshit
Ryebread91
5amNonsense
Maybe even drummed up to manufacture outrage
KuldFyt
Marwick42
Stoneagedudeman
Speedy Gonzales is a friend to my sister
13andido
pero te peinas cuña'o!
egoAristippos
He is my brother, actually
EnTeeYouSeeKay
And his cousin is Lento Lopez
ForgotMyUsernameYetAgain
Speedy Gonzales is a friend to ALL of our sisters
honeybadgerdontgiveashit
I read this in his voice:
mustardburp
seeestar*
darthstormer
Speedy Gonzales is a friend to EVERYBODY'S sister.
Science4SteakSauce
Seester
nullbr
*seester
gotmojomang
Gracias!
YuffieK
That would explain why he's so fast...
TheEvenPrez
on the flip side:
leodavinci1
This is the sort of thing that brings to mind Larry Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex".
chaosorbFTW
I always an reminded of his Disk.
Mistruths
She says to the guy who can make any part of his body vibrate on command.
GeneralBadger
Seriously the flash's tongue game must be mind shattering
umbrellamaker
Giganta certainly found someone
nullbr
It can warp you through time