Things that were banned this week, if you're keeping track:
Insulting lingerie (if you're at work, don't click. Nothing NSFW, but c'mon. Lingerie.)
Things about to be banned: fried chicken in New York hospital cafeterias
The list grows ever longer. Good news, though: Tintin was unbanned quite quickly.
I hope that's an inelegant translation, because "Afro-phobic" is a stupid word. We have to stop equating ridicule or criticism with a "phobia." The images of Africans in the book are racist, if you want a more useful word. It's bone-in-the-nose stuff. If you want to remove them from a library because the artist used contemporary conceptions in his work, you remove history.
It's also preposterous to remove all Tintin because of the images in a few. Unless you want to make the argument that Thomson and Thompson were engaging in Syldaviaphobia by showing up in stereotypical ethnic garb:

SCIENCEIf your mind is need of boggling, this is boggleriffic: the most zoomed-in photograph in the history of mankind.