Borders has reportedly moved the book to the adults “graphic novels” section, where, according to the Times, it is wrapped with a paper band and a note warning that it contains “bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period — an interpretation some readers may find offensive”.
Come on, you tolerant lefties – you know you want to!
What did they do with “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer”?
Cheers. Eric
“Indeed, the book shows Tintin’s dog, Snowy, being crowned king by the black people.”
This is utterly racist. It implies that the Africans couldn’t possibly be led by a dog of color, only by the white, imperialist cracker-cur Snowy. Ban this book now!
…i grew up on Tintin. But looking back, yep it was racist to the hilt.
Just like Loonietoons and early Micky Mouse cartoons.
“He said he was ‘aghast’ and his wife was ‘speechless’.
Good. Now stay that way.
One more time for non-believers, in the Orwellian lefty universe whole words and sentences get deleted regardless of merit and literary relevance. How pathetic that the French and Brits erase that which was literary, historic and by any intelligent measure could be viewed for what it was in its time and place.
We have braindead pc idiots here that want Mark Twain, our finest author, a champion of racial equality, removed from the classroom because he used the word “nigger”, a term not derisive in his time.
Tolerance of the intolerant isn’t a virture. Left to these idiots we would be stripped of great literture.
Erasing large segments of western culture because it offends the perpetually offended and concrete thinking small minded bores is wrong.
Sure it was racist, but also a product of its era. Most people who grew up on Tintin (this guy included) could see the portrayal of Africans in the book and the reality were two different things.
And besides, if I recall the story, except for the black sorcerer, all the ‘bad guys’ were white.
If this book is banned, then what next? Ban old westerns that portray ‘Injuns’ as bloodthirsty and cunning?
Penny:
You don’t understand. History is the way things would have happened if the correct people had been in charge, not what actually happened.
“imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the “savage natives” look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”
This sounds exactly like popular rap and hip hop videos seen on TV everywhere all the time where they call each other dog. It all makes sense now.
rewriting history,or erasing it is one of the tenets of communism I do believe?
How foolish to think that children’s books could possibly influence their perceptions.
3w.nizkor.org/hweb/people/m/mills-mary/mills-00.html
From Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom):
A devil goes through the land,
It’s the Jew, well-known to us
as a murderer of peoples,
a race defiler, a child’s horror in all lands!
Corrupting our youth
stands him in good stead.
He wants all peoples dead.
Stay away from every Jew,
and happiness will come to you!
John that’s very funny! those same lefties won’t utter a word against our real live modern day racists…can you say double standard? or maybe just because it’s an easy target, you don’t get dead for beakin’ off about old comic books.
…do kids play cowboys and Indians any more?
A seventy year old Tintin gets the full Libby Davies treatment while Farfour gets a pass?
not to mention the Danish comics where your life is in grave danger if you jest or whatnot with good old allah. niggs barely pass the smell test
10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books
for Racism and Sexism
from The Council on Interracial Books for Children
1. Check the Illustrations
..Look for Tokenism. If there are racial minority characters in the illustrations, do they look just like whites except for being tinted or colored in? Do all minority faces look stereotypically alike, or are they depicted as genuine individuals with distinctive features?…
http://www.birchlane.davis.ca.us/library/10quick.htm
“…When Franklin first appeared in the late 60s, his noticeably darker skin set some readers in search of a political meaning…”
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/images/gang_all.gif
say what? africans violent and superstitous, couldn’t be.
sumbuddy, also islam
Penny, erasing Western culture is the whole point of the exercise. That’s what these clowns are trying to do. Destroy our democratic, capitalist society and replace it with a tyranny where they call the shots.
I thought everybody knew that. ~:D
Watch out Jungle Book.
Nothing new here. I remember back in the 80’s, there was a movement to ban Huey, Duey, and Louie. According to the lefties of that time, their constant battles with Uncle Donald amounted to a promotion of the idea of family violence and abuse of youngsters.
I don’t know if they were officially successful (in that Disney made any kind of public apology or promise to not show them anymore) – but I haven’t seen them since then. And while most kids today know Donald Duck, they don’t know anything about his nephews.
Little Black Sambo was my all time favourite.
Dressing in blackface and singing Negro spirituals, Stephen Foster and Al Jolson songs in grade school were also fun things to do. And of course, the traditional version of Eenie, Meenie, Myney, Moe..
Concerning the “intolerance of the left”: “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye” ( Mt 7:5, Lk 6:42).
Fahrenheit 451. Another example of global warming, no doubt.
Gee can you still buy jujubes? And do they still have the black liquorice ones?
OMMAG- Do you mean those candies we used to call
uh…er….ah…. African-American babies?
I live in the UK and the only place where I’ve heard of this outrage is on right wing blogs in North America.
Jose, you need to get out more, the story has been all over the Brit newspapers. Start with the Daily Mail. Google it.
OMMAG- Do you mean those candies we used to call
uh…er….ah…. African-American babies?
Posted by: atric at July 13, 2007 1:56 PM
hahaahahahahahaaha
Druther watch the jeezus freaks burning the Elvis records.
Tintin’s Revenge!
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Tintin sales soar after racism row
The West Australian ^ | 14//07/07
Sales of a Tintin comic book have rocketed since Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality claimed it was racist, a newspaper has reported. Sales of Tintin in the Congo have shot up by 3800 per cent after the CRE watchdog claimed it contained potentially highly offensive material, said The Daily Telegraph. The comic has reached number eight on internet retailer Amazon’s most popular books list, the broadsheet reported. A CRE spokesman accepted that its interjection could have sparked the rise in sales. “It is a delicate balance but because we had a complaint from a member of the public we felt…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865845/posts
Now will the NAACP demand a PG rating for SONG OF THE SOUTH becuase good UNCLE REMUS isa black guy who is happy in the so called slave days theres even a BUGS BUNNY cartoon where they show these black people picking cotton and a THREE STOOGES progam where a black guy is seen stumbling around a kitchen. LOOK OUT JESSIE JACKASSON BUT MR BLUEBIRD IS GOING TO TAKE A DUMP ON YOUR SHOULDER