this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
112 points (100.0% liked)
askchapo
22781 readers
323 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Tintin. It took me until I read "tintin in the Congo" to realise something was up. It really hit a second time when I found out Hergé was Belgian.
Then of course the whole cowboy stuff that was sooooo popular. Karl May, Lucky Luke etc.
Even a lot of lullabies or play songs are so plainly racist its mindboggling. I was worried about having to check what media my kid is consuming when he gets older what with all the copaganda and other korra-like liberal messaging but the overt racism in songs for babies really blindsided me.
And then others look at us like "why are white people so racist?" My friend, we've been fed this shit before we could even understand speech.
Hergé is problematic, yeah. He was once paid quite a bit of money to draw/write a propaganda piece for a far-right newspaper in Belgium, too, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (it's awful, though not quite as awful as the Congo one - the only thing that one has going for it is the naked version for a quick smirk I guess, and obviously that was not from Hergé)
Comic Tropes has a great episode about him
Same with me and Asterix. I grew up with it and I love the story about the Gauls standing up to the Romans, but the rasism and depiction of POC is SHEESH
Plus apparently there is are a lot of (mostly French boomer) Asterix fans that lament that the new entries in the comic aren't 'politically incorrect' anymore.