I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room.
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I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.
Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo
@rohini I have a set of Tintin books called “The Complete Collection” but this isn’t in it as they like to pretend it doesn’t exist. Not even a mention if it, “too racist even for us” or anything.
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@rohini I have a set of Tintin books called “The Complete Collection” but this isn’t in it as they like to pretend it doesn’t exist. Not even a mention if it, “too racist even for us” or anything.
@aegir I remember another one in which 'gypsies' (the Roma) are called names.
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@rohini I have a set of Tintin books called “The Complete Collection” but this isn’t in it as they like to pretend it doesn’t exist. Not even a mention if it, “too racist even for us” or anything.
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@aegir I remember another one in which 'gypsies' (the Roma) are called names.
@rohini Yeah, anything not Western European in the books is corrupt, violent and not to be trusted.
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@mehluv well, 'explicitly fascist' clocks.
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I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.
Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo
yup. they’re horrible.
i grew up in Puerto Rico, so my exposure to TinTín was via a kids’ magazine from Argentina called Billikén. at one point they added them as a mini zine in the middle of the mag. i’d just ripped it out immediately.
it’s so horrible, i use TinTín as a measure of how racist someone is. cannot tell you how disappointed i was when Stephen Spielberg went out and made a whole ass movie. then i checked the credits. it gets worse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin_%28film%29
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I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.
Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo
@rohini Belgium in a nutshell. They are still selling little chocolate hands in the shops and in you order a Lumumba in there, they bring a "hot chocolate with a shot" as if history was a joke.
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I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.
Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo
@rohini whelp, that's a lot of "yikes" compressed into three pages.
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I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.
Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo
@rohini Oof - that was your first one?! That’s the one that usually is banned along with “Tintin in the Land of the Soviets” for the same reason (I think).
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@rohini Belgium in a nutshell. They are still selling little chocolate hands in the shops and in you order a Lumumba in there, they bring a "hot chocolate with a shot" as if history was a joke.
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I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.
Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo
@rohini wait for "the blue lotus" :/
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@rohini Oof - that was your first one?! That’s the one that usually is banned along with “Tintin in the Land of the Soviets” for the same reason (I think).
@seanbala first one as an adult. I read some in childhood.