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Or you could just make Tintin funnier looking. But looking at the cartoon I must admit it is really racist.

Even reading the "Great Literature" of the time you see how arrogant the Europeans and Americans were. Sommerset Maugham? Fagettaboutit!

But at the same time, I do agree it is not right to ban stuff like this instead of using it as a lesson.

"All in the Family" would never make it today.

But the point was that Archie was an idiot. Or to borrow from Green Day, an American Idiot. For those guys who fought in WWII, and my father was one, the stuff that happened in America was pretty hard to take.

Vietnam was easy for my father to understand. It bothered him that the Viet Cong had helped us against the Japanese, and we helped the French against them, who he considered cowardly Nazi collaborators, againt the Vietnamese.

Of course, my dad also believed that Moses was assassinated by Joshua and company because he new that the only way the Hebrews would remain strong was by staying out in the desert.

I guess you don't fight from Guadalcanal to the Phillipines without being a little crazy.

Being able to laugh at racism, and all the other "isms" is the only way to make them go away.

Lastly, I would say those "hot tubbin' liberals from Marin County" are as racist as folks I have met anywhere.