Pepe Le Pew canceled from new "Space Jam" movie?

The controversial Looney Tunes skunk cartoon character was scrubbed from the LeBron James starrer more than a year ago.

News of the character’s absence from the Warner Bros. film broke Sunday evening, days after a New York Times opinion piece called out the character, among other problematic cartoon characters, in the wake of Dr. Seuss Enterprises announcing it would stop publishing six books because of racist and insensitive imagery.

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In the Times opinion piece, Charles M. Blow said Pepé Le Pew “normalized rape culture.”

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