Legendary Apophis wrote:I'm sure most of you already read Tintin in Congo, whether it's the original version or the edited version (the latter I own since my childhood, the first however, is hard to find and can be considered as really politically incorrect), so I'm also sure you would be rather astonished that in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and CONFORMISM, it is now, in the UK, placed in the Adult section of bookshops!
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HystericalFor a start, the restrictions have been imposed in response to a complaint by a human rights lawyer — one of a body of men and women who will be forced to seek more respectable employment when I come to supreme power.
And a very silly human rights lawyer David Enright sounds, if we’re to judge him by his reflections on Tintin In The Congo.
‘Bookshops need to get a grip on what they are selling,’ he says. ‘There is no defence to it. Of course, they are free to publish’ — big of him! — ‘but it should be in the adult graphic novels section and even then some thought should be given to it.’
Now, hold on a moment, there. No defence to selling a Tintin cartoon story in the children’s section of WHSmith’s or Waterstone’s? At best, this seems to suggest a lack of imagination on the part of a lawyer, whose profession seems to have no difficulty in finding endless defences to protect foreign rapists and serial killers from deportation.
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Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1dg4gvDL1
What do you think about it? Agree? Disagree?
I agree with the author of the article that you have included. The restriction goes too far, but I do see the argument for placing a restriction on the sale of Tintin.
In general, I believe it is up to the parents to determine which books their children read, and they should know what is in them. Even if the parents are not so overbearing and the child picks up the book all on their own, I can guarantee it will not be because they see the racism in Tintin and think it is funny. There are books I read as a child that were far beyond my age comprehension when it came to the subtle. and not-so-subtle, aspects within the novels (which was unavoidable when a 10 year old reads Kipling and Herbert--though I do like to think that I understood far more than my peers would have).
It is a whole other matter entirely, however, when kids flock to read Tintin after they watch the upcoming
film. I might put an advisory on the book that it contains ideas from the 1930s and move it to a shelf that it isn't next to all other children's books, or make it available upon specific request, but I would not go so far as to bar those under the age of 18 (y'know, the people actually looking for it) from purchasing the the book.
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