tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post8895259259963618347..comments2024-01-02T23:22:21.430-05:00Comments on The Guild Review: The Virtues (and Vices?) of TintinAaron Lindermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992073027586818751noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post-31654191740221007352009-02-22T08:21:00.000-05:002009-02-22T08:21:00.000-05:00When Herge wrote The Adventures of Tintin, he was ...When Herge wrote The Adventures of Tintin, he was not in knowing what questions it would raise in the future, both racial and cultural-the time when he was creating was a world which did support racism, and one in which war was happening and the knowledge of people outside your own country would be much harder to acquire.<BR/>In Tintin in The Congo, for example, many comments have been raised about Herges depictions of The African people-yes they may seem exaggerated, and offer up a vision of what would be racism today, but he was not writing it today, he was writing it 60 odd years ago, and, for all we know, he believed this was the facial appearanc in general of a culture very inaccessible to his own.<BR/>As for the two jews seen celebrating at the news of a worldwide perish-he may be seen as expressing the views of the persecuted jews, their misfortunes in the financial sector, without getting himself killed- a sensible gesture by all accounts. <BR/>Your comments seem very valid to me. The snapping jaws of politicians and critics hungry for contraversial material have exploited the innocent drawings of an artistic genius.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com