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Should TINtin in Africa be banned
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http://www.telegraph....ike-book-burning.html
There is yet another call for this book to be banned, if they are successful in getting it banned, then what other books should be banned because they include something in them that offends a certain group of people?
Perhaps we can start by banning Edgar Rice Burrough's, Tarzan and the Apes books?
Then H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mine?
Followed by Rudyard Kipling's books, etc, etc?
Then we could start on films, The Life of Brian, springs to mind.
Come on lets have a huge bonfire, reminiscent of another time perhaps?
There is yet another call for this book to be banned, if they are successful in getting it banned, then what other books should be banned because they include something in them that offends a certain group of people?
Perhaps we can start by banning Edgar Rice Burrough's, Tarzan and the Apes books?
Then H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mine?
Followed by Rudyard Kipling's books, etc, etc?
Then we could start on films, The Life of Brian, springs to mind.
Come on lets have a huge bonfire, reminiscent of another time perhaps?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This about them being banned in Belgium not in the UK. Foreign Governments can ban whatever they want. Why are you interested in what the Belgians do?
// British editions of Tintin Au Congo have not been banned but are now sold with a band of paper around the cover, warning the content is offensive. //
// British editions of Tintin Au Congo have not been banned but are now sold with a band of paper around the cover, warning the content is offensive. //
In respect to the TinTin books. They were written in another era and their contents were ignorant and poorly research. It may well not have meant to be offensive, but as we have become more educated, then the contents are at best inaccurate.
I do not believe in banning books, so the compromise of still selling them with a warning that some may find the contents offensive is best for everyone. That way, you can laugh at the little savages, and I can marvel at the nice graphic design and everyone is happy.
Bit of a non thread this really.
I do not believe in banning books, so the compromise of still selling them with a warning that some may find the contents offensive is best for everyone. That way, you can laugh at the little savages, and I can marvel at the nice graphic design and everyone is happy.
Bit of a non thread this really.
Herge wrote his first few books as fairly mindless adventures culled from what he read in the newspapers - always a fruitful source of misinformation, as we all know. But he was criticised for this, and thereafter spent a lot of time on research and accuracy. Books like The Blue Lotus are much better for it. Apparently the rocket ship he drew in Destination Moon turned out to be remarkably similar to the ones actually used many years later, simply because he'd taken a lot of trouble to get things right.
Bad idea - if anything it reflects the times.
I used to read Kipling's just so stories to my daughter - but I did have to keep half an eye ahead to miss out the bits that were just way over the top for modern ears
But you have to remember what was going on in the Belgian Congo at the time
Locals were forced into slave labour - if they didn't produce enough rubber they had a limb cut off
Or a child's limb cut off.
Sir Roger Casement documented it all at the time with reports and pictures
http://tintinology.po...09/08/congo-hands.png
against this background "Tintin in the Congo" is a bit like "Tintin in Auswitz" would be - you can see why people'd get upset
I used to read Kipling's just so stories to my daughter - but I did have to keep half an eye ahead to miss out the bits that were just way over the top for modern ears
But you have to remember what was going on in the Belgian Congo at the time
Locals were forced into slave labour - if they didn't produce enough rubber they had a limb cut off
Or a child's limb cut off.
Sir Roger Casement documented it all at the time with reports and pictures
http://tintinology.po...09/08/congo-hands.png
against this background "Tintin in the Congo" is a bit like "Tintin in Auswitz" would be - you can see why people'd get upset
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I don't believe in banning books for any reason. Most of the books etc commented on were written a long time ago and are very much 'of their time'.
Biggles' books regularly get a pasting as well for the attitudes displayed in some of them.
In 1939 Agatha Christie had a book published with the title 'Ten Little ***' although it has been changed for some time now. It has been called and filmed as 'Ten Little Indians' although probably some people think that is bad too.
Times change.
Biggles' books regularly get a pasting as well for the attitudes displayed in some of them.
In 1939 Agatha Christie had a book published with the title 'Ten Little ***' although it has been changed for some time now. It has been called and filmed as 'Ten Little Indians' although probably some people think that is bad too.
Times change.
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