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The Many Life Lessons I Learned by Watching Looney Tunes Cartoons as a Kid
Pepe Le Pew is not the only problematic cartoon character in that cast
I watched a lot of cartoons when I was growing up. One of them was Looney Tunes. The ridiculous antics of characters like Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, and Sylvester the Cat, never failed to amuse me. Little did I know, I was also being brainwashed and programmed like a little robot, my brain nothing but a blank slate that the Warner Bros company stuffed ideas into and gave all the information necessary to become a good little capitalist worker drone.
It’s unfortunate and true. Because I watched Looney Tunes cartoons on many mornings and afternoons as a child, I am now incapable of making good decisions, or pursuing things that give me joy for the sake of my own happiness. Everything I do is poisoned. Literally every sandwich I eat, looks like a Tweety Bird.
Right now, Pepe Le Pew is in the news because Warner Bros have decided to remove him permanently from any new Looney Tunes productions. It seems that this talking skunk has been accused of perpetuating rape culture to impressionable young men, and of course this makes perfect sense. After all, every notorious rapist since 1950 or so has listed Pepe Le Pew as their primary motivating force…
