Anyone else find this cartoon racist?

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

The only way I could have seen this as racist is if he were standing in front of a Home Depot awaiting his next meal ticket. For the love of God, people have jobs of all sorts. There are many Hispanics who have handyman jobs, as much as they do any other. That would be like telling all of the maintenance people in my apartment building that they should get different jobs because they perpetuate a stereotype.

Well, thats true you have a point...but this is something that was created by other poeple, out of all the characters and themes they could have picked from they had to pick a Mexican doing handyman work.

This stereotype is too well known for it just to seem like a coincidence. I just find it a little hard to believe that from the time this show was thought up to the time it finally aired that it never crossed anyones mind.

[Anarky]

Wildcat: It has been successfully established that the cartoon was made by the Ku Klux Klan. Go read it up. They want to corrupt our youths with it, propagating the lazy-latino-stereotype. It's good that you bring it up.

[Mecha Cow]

I have found proof this show isn't racist. This Manny kid is voiced by Fez from That '70s Show, and he's as ethnically ambiguous as it gets.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

Well, thats true you have a point...but this is something that was created by other poeple, out of all the characters and themes they could have picked from they had to pick a Mexican doing handyman work.

This stereotype is too well known for it just to seem like a coincidence. I just find it a little hard to believe that from the time this show was thought up to the time it finally aired that it never crossed anyones mind.

But, I must admit one thing... you proven why people think its safer to make a cartoon character/television character white than anything else. Some schnook is going to read too far into something and get randomly offended.

I say Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson are Racist!! They are stereotypes of white males.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

I have found proof this show isn't racist. This Manny kid is voiced by Fez from That '70s Show, and he's as ethnically ambiguous as it gets.

And isn't Wilmer Valderama (Fez) Colombian anyway?

Originally Posted by Jester

And isn't Wilmer Valderama (Fez) Colombian anyway?

Yes and No Jester. You see, his mother is Colombian and his and his father is Venezuelan. In fact Wilmer was born in the US and is in fact an American. He and his family moved to Venezuela when he was three and only returned when he was 13. You can read about it in the Wilmer Valderama wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Valderama

Originally Posted by Jester

Yes and No Jester. You see, his mother is Colombian and his and his father is Venezuelan. In fact Wilmer was born in the US and is in fact an American. He and his family moved to Venezuela when he was three and only returned when he was 13. You can read about it in the Wilmer Valderama wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Valderama

Wow, now I know better, thanks Jester.

Originally Posted by Jester

Wow, now I know better, thanks Jester.

No problem Jester.

[Sewer Bull]

Jester, aren't you feeling a bit lonely today?

Originally Posted by Drtooth

I say Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson are Racist!! They are stereotypes of white males.

I thought Homer Simpson was a yellow male.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Mino

Jester, aren't you feeling a bit lonely today?



I thought Homer Simpson was a yellow male.

Homer's Asian? Could have fooled me...Man I'm a racist douche. You know because all Asians are smart...and Homer's dumb...

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

But, I must admit one thing... you proven why people think its safer to make a cartoon character/television character white than anything else. Some schnook is going to read too far into something and get randomly offended.

I say Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson are Racist!! They are stereotypes of white males.

Lol, well I have to adimt you got me there, I never looked at it that way.

I guess I am taking it a bit too seriously, I know Disney is not trying to offend anyone, all I was trying to say is what I said in my last post...that, that stereotype must have crossed someones mind at one time or another in the creation of the show.

[Voltron]

Originally Posted by That Matt Guy

I guess no one else saw the episode where he tied a bunch of inter tubes together and floated across the Rio Grande to avoid the border patrol, then took a 16 hour siesta.

That was almost as good as the episode where he builds the **** fighting ring for his friend, Davy the Gringo.


In all seriousness, is it so wrong to have a Mexican building things? You need something that kids understand. If they made him a lawyer or brain surgeon, it wouldn't be accessible to three-year-olds.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Jester

Homer's Asian? Could have fooled me...Man I'm a racist douche. You know because all Asians are smart...and Homer's dumb...

I thought yellow was the color for caucasian skin... I saw Asian characters on the show with sickly looking lighter yellow skin. Whatever, they're ALL voiced by white guys anyway...

That's racist!

[Sage Ninja]

I'm waiting for some one to bring up Doug and say how racist that cartoon was, since all the characters had multi colored skin except the main character Doug who was a natural skin toned.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by sage ninja

i'm waiting for some one to bring up doug and say how racist that cartoon was, since all the characters had multi colored skin except the main character doug who was a natural skin toned.

racism!!!!!!!

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

I'm waiting for some one to bring up Doug and say how racist that cartoon was, since all the characters had multi colored skin except the main character Doug who was a natural skin toned.

I'm sorry... but Blues do NOT like to make funny noises, an naming Purples Mr. Dink and giving them those stereotyped accents was shockingly offensive. Only apt stereotype I've seen on that show was Judy Funny... as far as certain artists go.

And don't get me STARTED on Chip and Dale and the Chipmunks.... there are a lot of fine baratoned rodents out there, but do you ever see them? NOOOOOO...

[Sage Ninja]

yeah like Benard from Disney's Rescuers gosh darned it!!

A Mexican builder? Big deal. Be glad it isn't yet again another whitey on tv. Black people aren't even a minority on tv anymore. What we need are more Asians, latinos, mediterraneans, and Natives on the tube.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Ryona

A Mexican builder? Big deal. Be glad it isn't yet again another whitey on tv.

As I said... people use whities because they can give them personalities and character flaws without some schlemiel complaining about how something is racist. Works for women too, less we forget Venus... no wonder why she had no personality.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

As I said... people use whities because they can give them personalities and character flaws without some schlemiel complaining about how something is racist. Works for women too, less we forget Venus... no wonder why she had no personality.

Wait...isn't that a Jewish word...RACISM!!!

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Jester

Wait...isn't that a Jewish word...RACISM!!!

Yiddish has all the best insult lines.