Re: [bomp] Re: But the Anvil-To-The-Head scenes can stay - Wholly Smoke!

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Subject: [bomp] Re: But the Anvil-To-The-Head scenes can stay - Wholly 
Smoke!



> Here's an article on the PC ban of Speedy - 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48872,00.html
>
> From the end of the above article -
> "Speedy boosters shouldn't expect to see their furry hero anytime soon, at 
> least in the United States, Goldberg said. But there is a place where 
> Speedy can still be found zipping across TV screens - and, presumably, 
> where the crude stereotypes he embodies don't touch a cultural nerve. That 
> place: The Cartoon Network Latin America, where, ironically enough, Speedy 
> Gonzales is "hugely popular," Goldberg said."

On the other hand, this person is something of a twit:
"Speedy Gonzales was a great character and I understand how he portrayed 
Mexicans in a bad light. However, the cartoons are still funny and it's a 
disservice and disgrace to the original animators to never show them again," 
said Geoff Mukhtar, an Indianapolis publicist and Speedy fan. "These 
cartoons reflect the time they were created and we're trying to impose 
modern standards on them."



OF COURSE they're being judged by modern  standards. It's not like they're 
being watched in an academic enviornment as "cartoons of the sixties" or 
something like that. If they're going to be presented in a modern format, to 
modern audiences, as modern entertainment, then why wouldn't they be judged 
by modern standards.

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