Bid to ban ‘racist’ Tintin book
Posted by admin on July 17th, 2007
The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is calling on high street books to pull a Tintin adventure from its shelves over claims it is racist.
Complaints about Tintin in the Congo have led to Borders and Waterstones moving it to their adult section. A spokeswoman said the book contained “words of hideous racial prejudice, where the ‘savage natives’ look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”. Borders said they are committed to let their “customers make the choice”.
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