Although banning it is the same as saying it didn't happen. It's important to learn from the past so you don't repeat the mistakes today, that's why something like Django Unchained is allowed in cinemas.
I love Tintin, but why it hasn't been banned or censored boggles the mind, considering the modern world's atmosphere of political correctness that borders the paranoid. I don't mean to be a jerk, but if everything is completely free of any element that could possibly offend anybody, you aren't left with a whole lot of interesting content.
Early Tintin comics were more propaganda pieces than actual comics aimed at children. The artist Herge often portrayed Tintin as a reporter often battling dictatorships and soviets; some of the content would not pass censors today and a lot of the stories that most people remember were the ones Herge wrote after World War II as Nazi Germany had pretty much prevented Herge from drawing more propaganda. Another thing you need to remember is the censors in Belgium are a lot more relaxed than in the States, and many of the criticisms about Tintin were met with the response of "Stop being so naive". The Tintin story is quite an interesting one, I might post up the story sometime.
Tintin did get away with a lot of racial stereotyping. It was just more acceptable at the time, I guess. Also, there are an awful lot of drug dealers in that comic, especially for what is supposed to be a kid's comic.
Dranzerstorm
Master of Lists (Senior Otaku) | Posted 02/28/13 | Reply
@nimbusoak:
Although banning it is the same as saying it didn't happen. It's important to learn from the past so you don't repeat the mistakes today, that's why something like Django Unchained is allowed in cinemas.
nimbusoak
Senior Otaku | Posted 02/27/13 | Reply
@Dranzerstorm:
I love Tintin, but why it hasn't been banned or censored boggles the mind, considering the modern world's atmosphere of political correctness that borders the paranoid. I don't mean to be a jerk, but if everything is completely free of any element that could possibly offend anybody, you aren't left with a whole lot of interesting content.
Dranzerstorm
Master of Lists (Senior Otaku) | Posted 02/22/13 | Reply
@nimbusoak:
Early Tintin comics were more propaganda pieces than actual comics aimed at children. The artist Herge often portrayed Tintin as a reporter often battling dictatorships and soviets; some of the content would not pass censors today and a lot of the stories that most people remember were the ones Herge wrote after World War II as Nazi Germany had pretty much prevented Herge from drawing more propaganda. Another thing you need to remember is the censors in Belgium are a lot more relaxed than in the States, and many of the criticisms about Tintin were met with the response of "Stop being so naive". The Tintin story is quite an interesting one, I might post up the story sometime.
nimbusoak
Senior Otaku | Posted 01/28/13 | Reply
Tintin did get away with a lot of racial stereotyping. It was just more acceptable at the time, I guess. Also, there are an awful lot of drug dealers in that comic, especially for what is supposed to be a kid's comic.
