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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I mean, at one point everyone blithely assumed that Mexicans found Speedy Gonzales to be racist and there was a (completely white-led) little backlash against him until someone got around to actually asking some Mexicans about it and discovered that he was actually broadly popular with that demographic.

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anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In general people really like seeing themselves on the TV and understand exaggerated stereotyping for comedic effect. Mama mia boopity bopy, as my ancestors would say.

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- sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  yells in italian
  
  …silently, by making threatening hand gestures
  
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pedroparamo@lemm.ee [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
He messed that cat up. Who’s going to be offended to be represent by speedyg? Nobody that’s who.

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TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Speedy Gonzales is laudable only because he contrasts the other sterotypes such as the drunken mice that occasionally help or Slowpoke Rodriguez, who I always thought of as super chill and awesome. But if I to pick which would stereotype would represent my minority, I’d also choose the model minority stereotype.

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EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
More examples, don’t get lost in the hole

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales

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Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And to this day, people still won’t shut the fuck up about this fact in every comment section of every Speedy Gonzales video on YouTube.

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Wetstew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ld be curious to see them revive Speedy with the less-than-flattering characters.

Every culture has a stereotype of a lazy/drunk/yokel, but there’s a proportion issue. A village of regular workin’ mice, one or two lazy slow or old mice and it’s no problem.

Apu wasn’t a problem at first, outside of him being voiced by a white dude doing Indian face, his orginal character was he was a hard working immigrant who had thinly veiled frustration for the lazy spoiled idiots he has to serve to make ends meet. Only to end it with the expected nice-ities expected of a clerk.

I’m not Indian though, and it’s been a while since I saw the early seasons. Grain of salt. Cutting him out of the show whole cloth sucked though, not a ton of Indian characters on TV.

Atleast Bob’s Burgers brought back Marshmallow when they decided to retool her a bit.

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