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Which makes your comparison of Congo and wars about Romans pretty irrelevant,
Why should race alone be the crux of the issue here? Do you think the Europeans would have been any less inclined to conquer the native peoples they encountered if they had been light skinned, rather than dark?
I highly doubt it. Frankly, the history of Russian colonialism proves otherwise anyway (Ever notice how you never hear anything about that either? :roll: ).
I myself objected to the overtly racist elements being depicted in the book (the art style, the native character's broken English, etca). What Hat was referring to had nothing to do with those problems. It was concerning the idea that a European would be held in high honor by natives, and that a European should teach native peoples about his culture as if it were their own.
I'm sorry, but that has nothing to do with "race." That is an issue of culture, and assumed cultural superiority.
The Romans were basically all about that kind of thing.
For another, the Roman Empire is not around to colonize anyone.
And Belgium is? :lol:
The book in question is almost one hundred years old!
Finally, the Roman Empire has nothing to do with this issue, and even if it did, that wouldn't make it the TinTin story OK.
You're picking and choosing what can and cannot be considered to be "offensive" by the measure of how much "butt hurt" it is capable of causing alone.
You can be that way if you want, but don't pretend like it is in any sense rational.
Umm, no. He doesn't show himself to be a better native, he doesn't single handedly lead them to victory, he doesn't become their leader, and his life is saved by one of the natives near the end of the movie.
You don't seem to know anything about what you're talking about
He effortlessly tames the untamable bird monster that has never been tamed, unites all of the tribes together, and is instrumental in bringing down the imperialist forces that the natives would've never had the courage to fight head on before he arrived.
Deny it all you want, the guy is basically a purple Paul Atreides. :roll:
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