The re-release of the celebrated cult-classic film Flash Gordon from 1980 has added a warning about “discriminatory stereotypes” due to the portrayal of Ming the Merciless.
As reported by Comicbook.com, Ming the Merciless was first featured in the Flash Gordon comic strips from the 1930s and, according to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), “attitudes towards the acceptability of discriminatory racial stereotypes have moved on considerably since then, and rightly so of…