I just connected the dots on what this whole argument was about in Tintin. It never even occured to me that the characters they were using were supposed to be representing a cartoon exaggeration of stereotypical views of a specific race of people.
This reminds me too much of that book analysis crap we had to do in highschool where we discover the deeper (nonsense)
meaning of the authors words and images.
I honestly never connected that they were supposed to be stereotypes of actual people.