Very Like A Whale

Following up on this post on un-PC children’s books, couldn’t resist getting this into the record. Wikipedia on Tintin in the Congo:

The shop later moved the book from the children’s section to the area reserved for adult graphic novels. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Commission [for Racial Equality] commented “the only place that it might be acceptable for this to be displayed would be in a museum, with a big sign saying ‘old fashioned, racist claptrap’”. Borders said that they were committed to let their “customers make the choice”.

I’m a fan of the Tintin books and my boys have most of them, although we don’t have a copy of Tintin in the Congo at the moment. On the whole, I think that while I wouldn’t object to them reading it, I would prefer that we have a conversation about it before/as they do so.