• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It may not do to assume. I mean, at one point everyone blithely assumed that Mexicans found Speedy Gonzales to be racist and there was a (completely white-led) little backlash against him until someone got around to actually asking some Mexicans about it and discovered that he was actually broadly popular with that demographic.

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      In general people really like seeing themselves on the TV and understand exaggerated stereotyping for comedic effect. Mama mia boopity bopy, as my ancestors would say.