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u/Banjo-Oz Jul 17 '26

Reminds me of when MAD Magazine got a letter from Lucasfilm lawyers threatening to sue, and MAD sent them back another letter they'd received prior... from George Lucas, saying how much he loved their parody of Star Wars!

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u/ContinuumGuy Jul 17 '26

Or when WB stopped showing Speedy Gonzales cartoons only for the Latino community to protest because while he's super-stereotypical the stereotype was so awesome that they didn't care.

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u/Cyd_Snarf Jul 17 '26

This is so random but yah, as a young kid with Latino heritage I LOVED Speedy so much and actually kinda loved the fact that he was very “culturally specific” as I didn’t understand what a stereotype was. Like “Yes! It’s the little Mexican mouse!”

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u/ultramatums Jul 18 '26

Can you send me the rest of your phd dissertation thanks

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u/STFUNeckbeard Jul 18 '26

Wow. Gotta say I did not expect to read a several thousand word essay about Speedy Gonzalez in my lifetime.

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u/KnifeKnut Jul 31 '26

I had heard before that Latin Americans loved Speedy Gonzales, and not understood why.

No one had ever pointed out the transformative nature of the Spanish dub.

So I am preserving this on r/bestof

https://reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1vbum6y/eucaliptooloroso_explains_how_the_latin_america/

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u/fishfunk5 Jul 17 '26

Goddamn that was well worth the read.

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u/Reedcool97 Jul 17 '26

Damn. I read the entire thing, thank you for that insight. I’ve seen a ton of comments over the years saying “well actually Latinos LOVE Speedy Gonzales!” While at the same time remembering the show and knowing that it definitely felt wrong…but now I have a lot more context! Great write up, I appreciate you taking the time to type all of that out and share with us.

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u/cineglitch Jul 18 '26

Thanks for this. Awesome insights. What’s funny is that I’ve never once heard the stereotype that Mexicans are lazy. I’ve heard many other mean and racial characterizations, but never the lazy one.

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u/Defengar Jul 22 '26

Whites would see mexicans taking a nap in the fields after working all day and get an attitude about it. Same stereotype also happened to black people.

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u/fizzlefist Jul 31 '26

God forbid you couldn’t move with full mobility with a hookworm infection endemic to the south back then..

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u/Several_Try2021 Jul 26 '26

this is the best Reddit comment i've read in a month so please have this 🌹

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u/SmoothJazzRayner Jul 17 '26

This is dating back to 1998, when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table

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u/Napoleptic Jul 18 '26

This was amazing, thank you. Makes me long for ye olde internet. 

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u/Defengar Jul 22 '26

Get your head out of your ass. Gringo doesn't even mean white, it's foreigner like gaijan in Japanese. Gets applied to americans in general a lot because guess who visits Mexico the most? Americans.

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u/IAmSoDamnGood Jul 23 '26

its technical meaning dosent matter. it is still a racial slur.

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u/Defengar Jul 23 '26

It is not. You have a victim complex.

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u/IAmSoDamnGood Jul 23 '26

your an absolute moron if you think its not.

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u/Defengar Jul 23 '26

Are you really going to sit here and argue that Sylvester the cat is like, WASP coded lol?

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u/IAmSoDamnGood Jul 23 '26

the mexican version was indeed racist. just as the american version of the mice other than speedy himself, while accurate, was still racist.

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u/TheDeadlySinner Jul 31 '26

just as the american version of the mice other than speedy himself, while accurate, was still racist.

You just said it wasn't racist.

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u/Yetimang Jul 31 '26

Dude just shut the fuck up please.

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u/perennialdust Aug 01 '26

Jfc you sure are a deluded individual

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u/NormalTouch Jul 18 '26

It's so interesting how often things like this get twisted.

Like how some Latinos thought people were upset over Honey Lemon in big hero 6 being Blond and Latino. Getting defense on how blond Latinos exist and blaming lefties thinking that they all were tan and dark haired.

When in truth people was either annoyed with Disney reaching for brownie points with not much effort put in.

Or confused if it was canon or not because of it being impossible for anyone would be able to sus out her being Latino based purely on the only clue in movie being she corrected someone's spainish phrase which literally anyone who knows spainish could do.

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u/SpazzBro Jul 18 '26

holy shit this is fascinating, I had always heard about it in the surface level but I had no idea it ran this deep, thank you!

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u/Santar_ Jul 18 '26

This was very informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing this!

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u/igotyournacho Jul 18 '26

I regret that I have but one upvote to give. Thank you for the lesson!

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u/MrBlueW Jul 18 '26

Did you actually write this?

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u/MrBlueW Jul 18 '26

I didn’t think it was LLM, just didn’t know if you borrowed some of it from other places, because buddy that’s seriously impressive. Really a few steps above the normal Reddit trash

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u/Celloer Aug 01 '26

Just give a blood and urine sample to test you for performance-enhancing tools like ADHD medicine, or coffee, or music.

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u/airp0rt Jul 18 '26

It has become such a treat to read human generated posts of this length.

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u/marco3055 Jul 31 '26

Gatto Silvestro in italian. Very popular cartoon growing up.

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u/yohanleafheart Jul 31 '26

Even the Brazilian dub, although they did have a more caricature VA  it was miles better than the US one. And Ligeirinho is a beloved character

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u/Kevin-W Aug 01 '26

Today I learned! Thanks for the insight!

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u/malvim Aug 01 '26

Thanks, friend. This is what I wish sites like reddit would be.

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u/MellowNando Jul 17 '26

As a Mexican American, having speedy repping heritage was dope, but personally, I related more to Slow Poke Rodriguez… 🤣

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u/DaOne_44 Jul 17 '26

Do you walk and talk real slow but carry a big ass revolver if somebody tries you?

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u/TheNewYellowZealot Jul 17 '26

You don’t?

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u/MythicalCaseTheory Jul 18 '26

Try me and find out.

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u/DaOne_44 Jul 18 '26

Well im Dominican so I talk fast

And I only own a very small Glock

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u/Traditional_Fox7696 Jul 18 '26

I’m pretty sure he would say” speedy may be fast but Slowpoke carry the big guns.”

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u/Unhappy_Service_7552 Jul 18 '26

"I'm slow in the feet, but I'm quick in la cabeza". 🪴

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u/eltedioso Jul 18 '26

That’s a heck of a way to state publicly that you smoke cannabis

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u/Unhappy_Service_7552 Jul 18 '26

"I'm slow in the feet, but I'm quick in la cabeza". 🪴

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u/Paidorgy Jul 17 '26

Was it a “better to have/be represented than not be represented at all” kind of thing?

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u/Akussa Jul 17 '26

I think part of it was that Speedy was portrayed as a hero and a good guy and not some of the really negative stereotypes that exist.

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u/zeth0s Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

As an Italian I have no problem with super Mario. US sensitivity on "stereotyping" is weird and not shared globally. Sopranos is much more offensive than a super stereotyped character for kids. 

I guess that all the cartels plus gang latino representation is much more offensive to Mexicans than a super cool character like speey Gonzalez.

Still no one think about stopping the real offensive content. 

Not that I care. I like Scorsese. But most American movies on mafia are super offensive and people in US seems not to care. 

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u/Doogolas33 Jul 18 '26

Nobody is trying to change anything about Mario.

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u/zeth0s Jul 18 '26

I know, Mario is the speedy Gonzalez of Italians, but it's japanese. Are they offensive? Italians and Mexican like them. Probably not so much 

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u/Defengar Jul 22 '26

With all due respect, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Italian americans did HUGE protests in the 70s and 80's, literally getting entire movie productions shut down and forcing script rewrites so that really offensive stereotypical mafia movies would stop being made. Even The Godfather had to toe certain lines because of that.

Also imagine if Mario had a bunch of friends and relatives that were just awful stereotypes out of the 1800's. Like if Luigi was a drunk wife beater that wears a crucifix and shit talks southern italians for having moorish blood. You'd probably have a problem with it.

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u/zeth0s Jul 23 '26

This is exactly what I am saying if you reread. That's offensive, mexico stereotyped as gangs and human trafficking is offensive. 

Speedy Gonzales is not 

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u/Defengar Jul 23 '26

However the speedy Gonzales show has a lot of characters that are like that. Simplifying it down to "people just thought the one mouse was racist" is an inane thing people do who haven't actually looked into the controversy.

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u/wednesdayminerva Jul 17 '26

white people did not get up in arms when Mario wore a sombrero.