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Tintin books promote white supremacism, says equality watchdog

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467757&in_page_id=1770

Tintin is banished to the adult section after claims of racism.

His comic adventures battling Communists, pirates and villains of all kinds have enchanted generations of children and adults.


Now Tintin has come up against his toughest foe yet - the forces of political correctness.

The Commission for Racial Equality has called for the comic hero's adventure Tintin in the Congo to be banned.

A spokesman said: 'This book contains imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the "savage natives" look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles.'

The commission demanded the ban after a complaint by David Enright, 40, a human rights lawyer, who saw the book on sale in the children's section at a branch of the Borders bookshop chain.

Now Borders have said it was moving the book - which was first published in 1931 - from the children's to the adult graphic novels section of all its stores.

The controversy comes as Tintin is poised to find even more popularity. Steven Spielberg has announced plans for a film about the cartoon reporter, who is famous for his blond quiff and trusty terrier, Snowy.

Mr Enright was with his black African wife and two sons when he discovered the tale of diamond smuggling on sale at a Borders store in London Colney, Hertfordshire, last month.
He said he was 'aghast' and his wife was 'speechless'. He spoke to the manager who told him it was on sale as a collector's item but agreed to withdraw it from display.

In a letter of complaint, he said: 'You are promoting white supremacist ideas and ideals through your promotion of a book which seeks to demonstrate that a white child is more mentally and physically advanced than black male adults. :rofl:rofl:rofl

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Posted : 11/07/2007 8:42 pm
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