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Tintin 'to be sued' for Congo book
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 01 Sep 2009 | Henry Samuel

Posted on 09/02/2009 9:05:38 PM PDT by paudio

Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to "racism and xenophobia".

"Tintin's little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not evolved," he said.

Mr Mbutu Mondondo launched a case in Belgium two years ago for symbolic damages of one euro from Tintin's Belgian publishers Moulinsart, and demanded the book be withdrawn from the market.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; belgium; childrensliterature; comics; congo; france; lawsuit; pc; racism; tintin
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I don't know how many Freepers are familiar with Tintin, but this is another case of multiculturalism goes crazy. The comics were first published in the 1940s!
1 posted on 09/02/2009 9:05:38 PM PDT by paudio
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Next he’ll be filing suit against the Asterix books because they make Romans look like morons! Always gotta be something to litigate!


2 posted on 09/02/2009 9:12:10 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: paudio

This reminds me of some of those barf-worthy notices they’re attaching to old films these days explaining that there may be stereotypes in the film, but they were left in to reflect the times. Oh, keep your nose out of my old films!

Now they want to back censor?


3 posted on 09/02/2009 9:14:40 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black.)
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To: paudio

4 posted on 09/02/2009 9:14:58 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Tintinabulation.)
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To: paudio

Another rent-seeker. How original.


5 posted on 09/02/2009 9:16:30 PM PDT by freespirited (The only thing growing faster than the deficit is Chris Matthews' man crush on Obama -- Tim Pawlenty)
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Oh please! Colonialism was no worse, and arguably better, than the chaos and unrestrained violence they have there now.


6 posted on 09/02/2009 9:16:46 PM PDT by Godwin1
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Only “arguably”?


7 posted on 09/02/2009 9:18:50 PM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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I don't know how many Freepers are familiar with Tintin?

Thunderbirds are Go?

8 posted on 09/02/2009 9:20:40 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (War is fought by human beings. - Carl von Clausewitz in On War)
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To: paudio

Wait a minute.
“’...It makes people think that blacks have not evolved,’ he said.”

Evolved from what?! That’s quite a racist statement there.


9 posted on 09/02/2009 9:28:22 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black.)
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To: paudio
I for one am offended with Captain Haddock making all us drunks look like fools!


10 posted on 09/02/2009 9:33:45 PM PDT by stormer
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To: ReneeLynn

Take a trip to Africa. Cradle of mankind. But yet they all still live at the tribal level right down to politics. Nobody can get ahead of the chiefs,, not more friends, more money, more ideas/// cuzz if any man excells, the people are preconditioned to pull him down.

Show me one invention other than the mortar and pestle. Show me their humanity... Africans are the most racist going! Thats why the periodical genocides....


11 posted on 09/02/2009 9:34:15 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: Cincinna

Ping.


12 posted on 09/02/2009 9:37:20 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Almost all Tintin books contain stereotypes of one form or another. I’m surprised the Arabs haven’t jumped all over this, too.

The Bordurians were made out to look like Soviet thugs, but you don’t hear them complaining! ;^)


13 posted on 09/02/2009 9:45:52 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: himno hero

That’s cultural, not evolutionary. If he’s said ‘black African culture has not evolved’ I would probably still have a problem with his complaining, but it wouldn’t sound so racist.


14 posted on 09/02/2009 9:46:34 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black.)
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“Tintin’s little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not evolved,” he said.

no, I think people who just do nothing but sue all day give that impression.


15 posted on 09/02/2009 9:49:56 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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I grew up with Tintin books. Herge stereotyped everyone and he did it well. Chinese, Japanese, South Americans, North Americans, Middle Eastern, Muslums. I have every book and occasionally read one even now. Red Rackums Treasure is my favorite.


16 posted on 09/02/2009 9:50:01 PM PDT by super7man
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In 2007, British race watchdogs pulled the book from children's shelves and attacked the Tintin cartoons for making black Africans "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles".

Boy, times have changed. The only people we can depict now as imbeciles are white men.

17 posted on 09/02/2009 9:58:44 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: himno hero
Have you been to Africa? I have, and while there are a lot of places where what you say is true, it isn't all like that. There are places of unimaginable beauty where happy, warm, and intelligent people live.


18 posted on 09/02/2009 10:01:11 PM PDT by stormer
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To: paudio
I guess Little Black Sambo would be totally out of the question. As I recall, he did get his clothes back from the tigers AND they all turned into butter(?), I think. Chasing around the tree, was it? Back areound '49 or '50, I think.

Whatever happened to Sambo's Pancake House?

Nam Vet

19 posted on 09/02/2009 10:09:21 PM PDT by Nam Vet (Obozo (the health expert) thinks innuendo is an Italian suppository.)
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To: stormer

The beauty of Africa is grandiose, and the potential excepting the upper third, is huge however it is quickly eroded by tribalism, corruption, uncle zoeee and his marriage to islam and their ability to relate to voodoo. Throughout africa the black heart and related corruption still prevails and their ability to get ahead is thereby limited.

The best thing that happened to them IS colonialism as bad an experience as it was. Look to Canada and Australia as examples of what colonialism can produce!


20 posted on 09/02/2009 10:09:46 PM PDT by himno hero
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