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Jul 18 2007 12:00am EDT

Racist Tintin Selling Fast on Amazon

I guess that hackneyed adage is true--any publicity is good publicity. News reports about Tintin in the Congo being moved out of the children's section in Borders for its racist depictions has led to soaring sales on Amazon. I can't imagine that this blip in the news cycle will have any impact on DreamWorks plans for three Tintin movies from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. From The Telegraph:

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) condemned Tintin In The Congo for making black people "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles" and called for it to be taken off the shelves.


But its intervention seems only to have increased the popularity of the controversial book about the boy reporter, as by last night it had reached number eight on Amazon's most popular books list.

The internet retailer said Tintin In The Congo had "jumped" into the top 10 since the CRE's comments, which followed a complaint by a member of the public.


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