[paudio]

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!

[pillut48]

Next he’ll be filing suit against the Asterix books because they make Romans look like morons! Always gotta be something to litigate!

[ReneeLynn]

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?

[Charles Henrickson]

[freespirited]

Another rent-seeker. How original.

[Oztrich Boy]

I don't know how many Freepers are familiar with Tintin?

Thunderbirds are Go?

[ReneeLynn]

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

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

[stormer]

I for one am offended with Captain Haddock making all us drunks look like fools!

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Disambiguator]

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! ;^)

[ari-freedom]

“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.

[super7man]

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.

[Razz Barry]

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.

[Nam Vet]

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

[Cronos]

you’re right — it’s like attacking Shakespeare for the characterisation of the Jewish Shylock in the Merchant of Venice, or the various anti-Jewish, anti-Irish and anti-Italian stereotypes and cartoons that continued until the 1900s

[Cincinna]

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TINTIN has been a cultural icon in France and Belgium for more than half a century. Translated into every language, and one of the most popular cartoon characters in the world. Comic strips, or bandes dessinees are considered an art form for adults.

This is political correctness gone amuck. Leave the little explorer alone!

[dljordan]

“I don’t know how many Freepers are familiar with Tintin”

I saw my first Tintin book in a bookshop in Kathmandhu, Nepal. It was “Tintin in Tibet” and I loved the artwork.

[Sparko]

Classic comics.

Hey, Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo: KMA

[WesternCulture]

This is not the first time I hear of ridiculous Congolese accusations.

Recently, Congo sued Norway for $500 billion US dollars!

http://stormen.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/congo-sues-norway-for-500-billion-dollars/

Last year, a certain Mr. Jean-Dadou Monya tried to get “Tintin in Congo” banned over here in Sweden. Hardly surprising, he wasn't successful and few people cared.

http://www.thelocal.se/8271/20070823/

In the 1940s and earlier, the attitudes most white people shared towards Africans often was condescending and full of prejudice, yes.

BUT; By banning books, films etc made in those days that bear testimony to this, we run the risk of this historic fact falling into oblivion.

Is that what we should strive for?

[Praxeologue]

The “journalist”, Henry Samuel, is informing us that “TinTin in the Congo” is “controversial”. This is, yet again, opinion disguised as reporting. I thought better of The Telegraph.

[nina0113]

When I saw the headline I wondered if the author could possibly still be alive to be sued, but this guy's going after the publisher. Considering the current state of Euro-weeniness, he'll probably win. I'm heading over to Amazon now to get my copy.