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A Tintin comic FORBIDDEN TO SALE TO -18 in the UK!

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:20 am
by Legendary Apophis
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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Hysterical
For 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?


PS: as you can see in the article, the author is rather pissed off lol.

Re: A Tintin comic FORBIDDEN TO SALE TO -18 in the UK!

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:42 am
by Psyko
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!

...

Hysterical
For 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.

Re: A Tintin comic FORBIDDEN TO SALE TO -18 in the UK!

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:55 am
by MEZZANINE
Correct me if Im wrong but isnt Othello racist ? Does it not portray a mixed race marriage being wrong ? And yet Shakespeare still on school reading lists.


Fact is all Plays/Movies/Books written/produced in the past will have the values and beliefs of the time they were written in, historically people were less tolerant of different races, sexuality, religions, etc, by modern standards people of the past even seem ignorant in many matters BUT you cant rewrite history and if you try to suppress or censor history how can you learn from it.

Re: A Tintin comic FORBIDDEN TO SALE TO -18 in the UK!

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:14 am
by Kikaz
Hmm interesting. I have all of those comics from 1976 ish.

Re: A Tintin comic FORBIDDEN TO SALE TO -18 in the UK!

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:05 am
by jedi~tank
Political correctness is nothing more than the government wielding its secretly gained power to herd its citizens into the "corral" to break them into a unified world view. Hide it in the porn section? Porn is more destructive than the minor racism portrayed in this comic. My point is there are far more destructive forms of literature like porn (if you can call it that) than this comic..things are so ass backwards world wide its not even funny. (Is my post on topic? :-k )