Tintin was created by Belgian writer
and illustrator Herge
Posted on 07/12/2007 6:40:27 AM PDT by yankeedame
Last Updated: Thursday, 12 July 2007, 09:27 GMT 10:27 UK
Tintin was created by Belgian writer
and illustrator Herge
The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is calling on high street shop Borders to pull a Tintin adventure from its shelves completely.
Tintin in the Congo has already been moved to the adult section over complaints that its content is racist.
A spokeswoman said the book contained "words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles".
Borders said they are committed to let their "customers make the choice".
'Racist claptrap'
The store's spokesman added: "Naturally, some of the thousands of books and music selections we carry could be considered controversial or objectionable depending on individual political views, tastes and interests."
"How and why do Borders think that it's okay to peddle such racist material?" said the CRE spokeswoman.
"The only place that it might be acceptable for this to be displayed would be in a museum, with a big sign saying 'old-fashioned, racist claptrap.'
"It's high time that they reconsidered their decision and removed this from their shelves," she added.
The Tintin adventures were written by Belgian author Herge - real name Georges Prosper Remi - from 1929 until his death in 1983.
He continued to revise his books after their publication, and admitted embarrassment over some of the views they expressed.
A scene in Tintin in the Congo in which the eponymous hero gave a geography lesson to Africans about Belgium was later changed to a maths class.
I can only assume Huckleberry Finn is next.
[[”How and why do Borders think that it’s okay to peddle such racist material?” said the CRE spokeswoman?]]
The same way that rappers and their liberal cultural makers think that it’s ok to peddle music that calls people niggas, ho’s, bithces and whiteboys.
p.s. You used to be on AOL. I'm no longer on AOL either.
While they’re at it, they smight as well ban the entire series of Tintin books. After all, they’re full of racial and cultural stereotypes.
The following groups could find something to be offended about by Tintin books:
Black Africans, Muslim Black Africans, Muslim Arabs, Japanese, Chinese, South American Tinpot Dictators, South American natives, Indonesians, Eastern Europeans, Jews, American Indians, etc.
Or the Bible.
Cue Buddy Holly.......
How do they feel about the autobiography of Malcolm X where he calls white people “White Devils†and believes that whites were a product of an evil mad scientist...
To make sure no one is offended we should just burn all of the books.
do I really have to put a /sarc tag here?
From what I understand, “Tintin in the Congo” is widely considered, even by serious Tintin fans, to be rather unacceptably racist. It’s available, for the completists, but children are not really missing out on anything by not having it available in the regular Tintin displays. The earliest Tintins, like “Tintin in America”, which I have, are rather inferior to the later ones, IMO. Having said that, I think removing it from the children’s section was appropriate, but don’t believe it should be unavailable to adult Tintin fans who might just want to have a complete set.
My thoughts exactly
We are entering a dangerous period. There is now an aggressive rise of a new kind of PC fascism. These things don’t tend to be resolved neatly.
Growing up, TinTin was the Comic of Last Resort, to only be read if it was the only thing left...as it was, often, in my dentist’s office. Reading them was like watching Seinfeld if you took all the jokes out. The ten stock characters acted the same way in this one as they did in the last one...and I can’t remember anything about them execept the kid in the sporty shirt, and some old black-bearded seacaptain.
Worst.part?
REALITY
Lets.talk.about.today
There.are.still.places.in.africa.where.they.eat.one.another.and.practice.voo-doo
"..Fard claimed that armageddon was imminent. His doctrine maintained that black people in America had duty to discover their origins and purpose. Out of all the nations of the Earth, diasporic Africans, particularly those in "the hells of North America," were the only nation without any knowledge of their history, no control of their present lives, and without any guidance for their future. Black people had been systematically denied knowledge of their true history by their "white oppressors". Christianity was a religion of the slave owners that had been forced on enslaved or subordinated black peoples. He claimed that Islam was the original faith of black people prior to slavery, and that the original peoples of the world were black. He called white people "a race of devils" created by an evil scientist named Yakub on the island of Patmos. He also claimed that black people were divine by nature, created by Allah from the dark substance of space, and that a spacecraft was waiting to destroy all white people when the appointed time came..."
BTW, according to Elijah Muhammad this clown is God.
I have that book — it’s one of my treasured possessions,as you can’t get it anymore!
Are these next?
Blasphemer! The guys on the unofficial Tintin fan site would eat you alive for that ;)
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