I just wanted to add this to the conversation:

Sure, nobody likes their stereotype, but they are just stereotypes. Stereotypes will exist regardless of how many things you cancel, because it's just something we are mentally inclined to do. We can't mentally give a "special" status to everything we see, so we assign general traits to things and people based on our previous experiences or what other people tell us. Some people take stereotypes too far? Yes, surely, like people calling conservatives "white supremacists", or orange people bad, but we all do this.

You can be a racist with or without stereotypes, if a racist uses stereotypes, too bad, they also use cars, internet, everyday objects, doesn't mean everything they touch must be cancelled.

I think cancel culture advocates (who don't think themselves are that) are taking advantage of the confusion between these two terms.

I am a mexican, and when I see Speedy González I just see a mexican stereotype from the 50s (which I really enjoy, because the character is lovely and fun), but that's it. If someone misuses that stereotype and does some awful shit, then that could possibly be racism (altho "mexican" isn't a race, it's a nationality), but that doesn't mean the character is racist.

By the way, if you actually care and want to see the actual reaction to the idea of cancelling Speedy González, see the replies in this Mexican Newspaper (Bloomberg Mexico) on twitter: https://twitter.com/ElFinanciero_Mx/status/1369143407537397763

Haven't read them all, but I think they are 100% negative towards cancellation.