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Pepe Le Pew, Bugs Bunny, and the very un-PC history of Looney Tunes


Pepe Le Pew, whose appearance in Space Jam 2 has been cancelled
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The cancel culture debate stinks. Quite literally, this time. The latest name to be tossed on the ever-growing scrapheap of problematic, un-PC stars is, ahem, Pepe Le Pew, the randy French skunk from the Looney Tunes cartoons.
Pepe – who debuted in the 1945 short Odor-able Kitty – was set to appear in the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy, in a scene with Jane the Virgin star Greice Santo. Now Deadline reports that the loved-up Pepe has been scrapped from the film. The news comes after New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow said the character “added to rape culture”. ....

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