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Asterix and Tintin. Good or Racist? (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

But Herge's actual involvement with the nazis was slim, when the war began he was writing about how bad the Japanese invasion of China was in collaboration with a Chinese friend (The Blue Lotus is still so fucking racist)

There's a bit in the Blue Lotus where Tintin trys to access the Shanghai international settlement (a chunk of Shanghai basically occupied by US and UK troops during the Century of Humiltation) and British troops try to stop him, they cut it from the 90s cartoon and just had Japanese soldiers, because suggesting that Anglos were once also trying to colonize China was considered poor taste at the End of History. It's so racist still. But he also locked in and put everyone on blast.

(They also cut so much of Tintin in America. Lynch mobs. Mistreatment of First Nations. It's like the shortest arc).