Winnie the Pooh? Don’t Compare Bears With Brutes!.

Winnie the Pooh horror film censored over Xi Jinping comparisons

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Censorship is usually a bad thing, as we have said before, notably when here in Indonesia a major book business….

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…collaborated with benighted sectarians in a book-burning episode.

But this report, on the brutal red bandit regime in Beijing..

‘Chinese censors have in the past targeted the film’s main character due to memes that compare the bumbling bear to the president…’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/worl-news/2023/03/21/hong-kong-release-winnie-pooh-british-horror-film-censored-xi/

…is worth discussing, in that Pooh has been not merely ‘bumbling,’ but beloved, by generations of children, myself included, a faithful  friend…..

Pooh

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….who does not deserve to be compared….

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….to an evil communist tyrant like Adolf Xi.

Yes, I understand it’s a horror version of the cuddly bear….

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…but no matter how horrific the movie-makers manage to make Pooh seem….

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….it’ll never match the level of monstrosity that characterises the real-life red.