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 At least Hergé got a bit better. In ’The Castafiore Emerald’, the Roma are not treated completely equitably, but for example Haddock gets scolded for letting them camp on his castle grounds, and in the end even though the Duponds suspect them of theft (ACAB!), in the end they are cleared of the crime.
Of course the suspicion in the first place is very racist,and they could be handled much better, but it’s still a world of difference to ’Tintin in Congo’.
Rohini Lakshané
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