Please contact your libraries, teachers and media outlets to put a stop to this assault on our past. So, what are we to do? Nothing is perfect! The problem I have with rewriting everything is that what is replacing our past is not necessarily better. I have noticed that in the Looney Tunes World everyone had dynamite, even Tweety Bird always had a cache of dynamite available to put in the jaw of Sylvester the Cat. Just show me one kid in the past 90 years who blew himself up with dynamite after watching Yosemite Sam and I will concede that they have a point. The “woke crowd” decided that could make children consider suicide. The other reason I noticed the “woke crowd” found for erasing Yosemite Sam, was that he was always shoving dynamite down his pants. Don't know why this guy is biting the dust, guess he was just not quite fast enough.

I always thought Speedy Gonzales was a very positive caricature of a Mexican, as the only other Mexicans we saw on the big screen were drug dealers. Why can't the “woke adult” of today figure that out? We must expose how counter-productive it is to remake a 90-year-old cartoon. I knew that it was all “just silly”, and the point of the cartoon was to make me laugh. One day, they'll all be banned, so treasure them while you can.Īs a child, I knew the difference between a cartoon and real life. They hunt, they eat and try to kill over and over, in the desert, in the forest, on the mountain or in the backyard. Sorry, this has nothing to do with cartoons, but the subject is reminding me of my own unsafe, freewheeling childhood that I miraculously lived through.ĭaffy Duck, Road Runner, Wile E Coyote, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and Yosemite Sam only exist because of their crazy out-of-control activity. Now, we were all white kids and to my knowledge, not one person in our neighborhood ever shot anyone or scalped a person as an adult. Sometimes the indians stole the guns, but usually they didn't bother as they liked the idea of scalping the cowboys. (Girls were allowed to be cowboys and/or Indians with no explanations necessary). Regarding guns, as a child, all the cowboys had cap guns and our indians had bows and arrows. That is why I painted an image of Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam with lightsabers, having a down-and-out-talk with Pepe Le Pew about his too amorous advances to Penelope Pussycat! He will apparently carry a “grass hook”! How useful is that when he has to fend off a claim jumper? Since this is a cartoon, if they are looking to bring him into the modern-day world, I would rather they give him a lightsaber. They even took away Yosemite Sam's pistols, which seems to lose the whole point of the character, as it is hard to imagine an old-time prospector without a gun. It seems the “woke crowd” has no problems with violence, but draw the line on guns. How crazy is it when they take away Elmer Fudd's shotgun and give him a scythe? Really, a scythe? What hunter carries a scythe? Actually, it looks just as violent and potentially more bloody for Bugs Bunny. I think it is a reach to call any of these cartoons racist or sexist or accuse them of being anything but entertainment. However, you do see positive images of ducks of color, roadrunners of color, and tweety birds of color. Take for instance, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam. In my opinion people of non-color are not portrayed in a very positive way either. I never did believe that Looney Tunes was in the business of representing positive images of anyone. In Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Three, Whoopi Goldberg issues a warning about the characters she felt could hurt women and/or people of color. What is interesting about our new culture of constantly being offended is, that there is no end and there cannot be an end. Because of watching Pepe Le Pew as a child, I knew enough to never be alone with such a “scary” hands-on Frenchman. It served me well later in life when I met a real-life Frenchman who was definitely more forward than a unsophisticated Minnesota teenager was ready for.

I have always thought that Pepe Le Pew, the sophisticated-if-too-fresh French Skunk, was a caricature of an over the top Frenchman. I have never felt offended by any of the Looney Tunes Cartoons.

I don't understand why the creators of Looney Tunes creations are changing their cartoon characters because of the loud voices of a few.

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