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Tintin Ban Fails in Sweden
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Political Correctness; Posted on: 2007-08-23 14:46:29 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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"Tintin in the Congo" offends "Congolese Swede"
by Western Voices correspondent
The latest move to target a comic book for the burn pile has failed in Sweden, to the surprise of observers of human rights abuses in the name of political correctness.
The comic book, "Tintin in the Congo" dates from 1931 and portrays racial views and images which are now out of fashion, and in some places are literally illegal.
The case in Sweden involved Jean-Dadou Monya, 42, a "Swede of Congolese descent" who wanted the comic banned because blacks were portrayed as "lazy" and the boy-hero Tintin "screams at them." Monya's attempts were sunk on technical grounds.
Legal action is also afoot in Belgium, home of Tintin's late creator, Hergé (Georges Remi). His widow agreed with a voluntary ban placed on the books in the United Kingdom by Borders, and international retail megacorporation, which relegated the comic to its adult section. The Border move came after the Orwellian Commission for Racial Equality called the book "old-fashioned, racist claptrap" and demanded it be banned.
As is usual in these situations, individuals jumped on the bandwagon, with one man in England who has two mulatto offspring getting his photo in a local paper expressing his upset.
Unsurprisingly, the book is facing restrictions in the "New South Africa," where the publisher has decided not to release the book in Afrikaans. Speakers of Afrikaans are considered to be the most "racist" of the dying white population of South Africa.
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News Source: Correspondent
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