iirc Speedy Gonzales cartoons have alternately been pulled and put back in circulation as latino groups have praised him as a good character
I think all the marijuana smoking refs have been pulled, though
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
Are you guys making the argument that because you liked Speedy Gonzales, it's not still an awful racist stereotype and caricature?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I mean, shit, I "liked" Hong Kong Phooey as a kid too, it was still a terrible idea
― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/speedy-gonzales-hispanic_n_4039787.html
FWIW this was how I viewed Speedy -- he was clever, heroic, funny and amiable. I'm not going to tell anyone what to find offensive, but I can certainly understand why a hispanic person might *not* find him offensive.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
It's a little more complicated than a handful of people!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales#Censorship
Despite such controversy over potentially offensive characterizations, Speedy Gonzales remains a popular character in Latin America. 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.
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Is Eddie Murphy as the old Jewish man in Coming to America offensive? Because that's one of my favorite screen characters of all time in spite of the yiddish caricature.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
obviously I'm not trying to say what is or isn't offensive, but that the character isn't pure negative stereotype (he was always the quickest/smartest/most cunning of the bunch) and that going from that to "accepting the forced breakup of Mexican families" is a pretty massive stretch
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
hah, fair point
― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Does anyone feel like the whole joke of speedy gonzales is that he is fast/smart &c *unlike other Mexicans*?
― wins, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
I have never ever gotten that impression.
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
me neither
― wins, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
the joke is that he's hyperactively fast
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
I have had that impression in the past
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
i'm hispanic and i'm not crazy about speedy gonzales, primarily b/c it because it was used by white kids i grew up with as nicknames/slurs for hispanic people
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
i hate the band name "speedy ortiz", too, especially since none of the members are hispanic
re: gonzales, i generally operate on the notion that stereotyping marginalized groups of people in cartoon form isn't a good practice. i understand though that some latinos are okay w/ speedy.
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
If nothing else he gave us a great joke on Futurama: "That guy makes Speedy Gonzales look like Regular Gonzales!"
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
I thought Speedy Gonzales was cool when I was a kid, and I didn't really know much about Mexican stereotypes or know many Mexican people. If someone had told me they were Mexican when I was age 7, I don't know that it would have really registered for me that "that's what Speedy Gonzalez is" tbh. Not trying to pull some "I don't see color" bs, I just think my kid brain didn't really process Speedy Gonzalez as anything other than a cool cartoon mouse.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
the sombrero and thick accent didn't tip you off eh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
xp to hurting -- i get it that as a 7 year old you might not know that speedy gonzales = mexican. but the character is obviously coded as such and at some point speedy is going to enter kids' consciousness as a mexican stereotype. it wasn't 7 year old white kids calling hispanic people "speedy gonzales" when i was growing up, it was white teenagers clearly aware of speedy's mexican tropes who grew up watching looney tunes.
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
right though white teenagers are gonna be shitty no matter what, as a Jew I got a ton of the Eric Cartman stuff growing up. though had South Park never existed I'm sure it just would've been something else.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
there's always something
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
Kinda on-topic - I walked into my son's preschool classroom recently and did a doubletake at one of their art projects.
http://i.imgur.com/DNqoLtc.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
ladybugs?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Ladybugs.
http://i.imgur.com/ZeScVFZ.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Ladybugs
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
idgi
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
on first glance they look a little like pickaninnies
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.google.com/search?q=pickaninny&client=firefox-a&hs=hGy&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&imgil=VZiXq68eRFwocM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcRjB3x4fYBGQXHqgToKKFoDx_XsCGGCq1yZqjWoMZWS4_5UfWsPgg%253B200%253B160%253Bt9nUouhiNsG82M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fen.wikipedia.org%25252Fwiki%25252FPickaninny&source=iu&usg=__ZsiM5OF1Crdwx9QnLA5_mMOjFdQ%3D&sa=X&ei=6mByU9ipJqqd8gHfp4CIAQ&ved=0CDwQ9QEwAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=VZiXq68eRFwocM%253A%3Bt9nUouhiNsG82M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252Fthumb%252F5%252F55%252FPicaninny_Freeze.jpg%252F200px-Picaninny_Freeze.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FPickaninny%3B200%3B160
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
That's what my first glance told me.
Especially when you first flip the lights on in an empty classroom.
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
Still don't see it. I see ladybugs.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
I just see bugs, I don't see gender.
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
I guess maybe pplains is the REAL racist here.
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
...or we are
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
i figured out that they were ladybugs, but at first i saw BLACK HEARTS which was obv. awesome of kids and teacher both
― j., Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yMhheyr.gif
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
I saw what DJP described, dark faces with red bandannas.
And I am completely racist, thought we'd been over that.
Racist toward LADYBUGS.
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Has this been brought up yet? http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/05/11/310708342/recall-that-ice-cream-truck-song-we-have-unpleasant-news-for-youThis
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
yea, not sure if it was this thread or the other race thread floating about site new answers
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
That song title
o_O
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
I just saw lady bugs. I thought the deal was "LADY" bugs named Henry...like no man bugs, ever? I was actually at the kitchen sink this evening, washing dishes trying to figure out what the deal was and so had to return here and there it is....
― *tera, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think it's a little beyond o_O
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
I won't belabor the point (too late), but this is what I thought I saw at first.
http://i.imgur.com/FkBePHKl.gif
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
i don't understand why that NPR article is circulating like grumpy cat in 2014 when there was literally a top 10 song with that melody on the billboard singles chart 8 years ago
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
It's almost like a hip-hop song isn't sufficient enough grounds to talk about something, but it is when the predominately white NPR gives it some shine, hmmmmm
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
lol I thought about "Chain Hang Low" too
social justice clickbait didn't really exist in 2006 the way it does in 2014 tho
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
cf justin bieber having more twitter followers than kurt cobain ever did
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
is theodore r johnson 'predominantly' really white whiney? how many eighths are we talking?
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
I listened to it yesterday and feel kind of terrible that it's been stuck in my head off and on today
― joygoat, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 5:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's why i called out the source, not the author
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link