Speedy Gonzalez exonerated...it's okay to be a cartoon Mexican mouse
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,55675,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,55675,00.html</a>
Whew...and here I was, fearing I'd seen the last of the little fella...
Whew...and here I was, fearing I'd seen the last of the little fella...
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Not ONE of them found Gonzalez demeaning or insulting. If anything, they were irked that the show was removed and that their kids were deprived of seeing someone they grew up watching.
Since when did the tender sensibilities and hyper-PC whims of the few govern what the many can do, see, hear, watch, think, say, etc.?
Any Hispanic people here at AI totally offended and bothered by Speedy Gonzalez?
What's next: are bald guys with speech impediments going to call for the removal of Elmer Fudd from the airwaves? Does Foghorn Leghorn sound too much like a Southern plantation owner? When Bugs Bunny puts on a skirt and lipstick to outwit a pursuer, is that a slap in the face of the transvestite/transexual/transgender community?
Jeez...
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One of them said "that's so STUPID...it's a cartoon!" and so forth. And that's pretty much the stance taken by everyone I've talked to about this.
He was/is a very popular and well-liked character in the Looney Toons family. I felt that this was one of "those stories" when it broke, feeling that there was no merit or reason for it whatsoever, and that within a few months or so, smarter and cooler thinking would prevail.
Looks like I was right. Again.
I think most people see what's what. I think the busybody, perpetually offended segment of society is indeed a very small (albeit vocal and often influential) of the population.
I'd like to think that most normal people are too busy busting their ass to raise their families, pay the bills, do the right things in life, etc. to waste their time worrying about silly stuff like this.
You very rarely see just a "regular joe" kind of person get all bent out of shape at stuff like this. It's always the academic types, or the professional complainer/protester/boycotter or a member the the R.I.P.O.B (Righteously Indignant and Perpetually Offended Brigade) who seem to have the time and energy to get worked up about cartoon mice, racism in George Lucas' universe, etc.
Nobody I know EVER gives a damn about this stuff. White, black, Hispanic, gay or otherwise. Maybe I just hang out with a happy, less whiny class of people. I'd like to think that's the reason.
Now, a certain young Heigl I know....;