And Then They Came to Cancel Pepe Le Pew

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And Then They Came to Cancel Pepe Le Pew
By Bryan Preston Mar 06, 2021 4:39 PM ET


It should be clear now that the New York Times is waging culture war against everything and seeks to impose Year Zero. Its latest attack focuses on cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew. Apparently, the amorous French skunk perpetuates rape culture.

    On the heels of Dr. Seuss being muzzled for racist depictions in a few books, another beloved childhood memory is also being called problematic … one Pepe Le Pew.

    The Looney Tunes character fell into the crosshairs of NYT columnist Charles M. Blow — who wrote an op-ed titled “Six Seuss Books Bore a Bias” … where he argued racism is deeply embedded into American culture (especially pop culture) and fed to kids at a young age.

Blow singled out a couple of cartoons and characters — Speedy Gonzales and the maid character in Tom & Jerry — and then trained fire on Le Pew. Blow “threw in Pepe as well as another ‘toon that telegraphed the wrong message … saying the French skunk normalized and perpetuated rape culture. Of course, a lot of people had very different reactions — some agreeing, and others lambasting Blow for suggesting a drawing could sway real-life behavior.”

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[andy58-in-nh]

Few persons in this world are more aptly named than Charles Blow.

[Gefn]

Does anyone recall Speedy Gonzales or the Frito Bandito?

I guess I’m officially a boomer.

[PeteS in CA]

I watched Roadrunner cartoons and never had a hankering for rocket roller skates.

I watched Bugs Bunny cartoons and never shot my shotguns willy-nilly Elmer Fudd style.

I watched Speedy Gonzales cartoons and never believed most Mexicans are lazy.

I watched Pepe Le Pew cartoons and never once chased a woman.

Is the current generation of kids less able to discern fact from fiction than I was?

[Sled Dog]

Does anyone recall Speedy Gonzales or the Frito Bandito?

I guess I’m officially a boomer.

They tried to use the Frito Bandito as an example of racism in my daughter's 9th (?) grade class and she thought the commercial was hilarious.

And, yeah, they cancelled Speedy almost two decades ago.

And Song of the South is officially verboten. 

And...when was the last time we saw a Bugs Bunny/Warner Brothers cartoon from the War Years?   Those fine patriotic propaganda films are officially banned, too.

[Smokin Joe]

Does anyone recall Speedy Gonzales or the Frito Bandito?

I guess I’m officially a boomer.

Yes. And a host of other cartoons which have been cancelled.

Time to cancel the NYT.

[Sled Dog]

I watched Roadrunner cartoons and never had a hankering for rocket roller skates.

I watched Bugs Bunny cartoons and never shot my shotguns willy-nilly Elmer Fudd style.

I watched Speedy Gonzales cartoons and never believed most Mexicans are lazy.

I watched Pepe Le Pew cartoons and never once chased a woman.

Is the current generation of kids less able to discern fact from fiction than I was?

The younger people are being fed lines of fiction on every front, lies promoted as reality, and one of the lies they're being fed is that American culture is inherently racist, and to substantiate this lie they have to publicly and routinely sacrifice some new bit of American culture on their altar of Racism...Gone with the Wind, Bugs Bunny, Dr. Seuss, the Bible, the Constitution, the Founders, the kids parents.

Remember, the Rodents view the fictional cautionary tale "1984" as an instruction manual, not a warning.

[Smokin Joe]

The younger people are being fed lines of fiction on every front, lies promoted as reality, and one of the lies they're being fed is that American culture is inherently racist, and to substantiate this lie they have to publicly and routinely sacrifice some new bit of American culture on their altar of Racism...Gone with the Wind, Bugs Bunny, Dr. Seuss, the Bible, the Constitution, the Founders, the kids parents.

Remember, the Rodents view the fictional cautionary tale "1984" as an instruction manual, not a warning.

Not to mention Fahrenheit 451...Where books were banned (and burned) because they made people sad...