Xinnie & Mo: a tale of 2 bears
Sometimes incompatible beliefs share a common ground. Unfortunately, it's more often we notice and even herald the differences. Beliefs such as religion and societal systems are deep set; unless their doctrine can be reinforced by other sources or more followers will be brought to the cause, the shared features are seen as irrelevant and kicked to the curb. From Norse religion to early Christianity, the people of the time believed in their doctrine and its benevolence. They believed it to be the best way forward.
Quite revolutionary for the time some might say. Even beyond opting for the best belief system, other religions could be absorbed in successful bids to make the changes more palatable for the converts. See the Brits' shift from Woden/Oden to the Christian God. As with the Vikings.
But what does this have to do with bears, cartoon and otherwise?
Well apart from having to go back in time also, to find a time when religious figures behaved like savage animals...Well, we'd have to go back a lot further than post Roman Britain for MOST religions...but the case in point here is about shared traits. And the similarity with the above events finds otherwise opposing religions/belief systems merging. Though the above example was a noble one...
Conversely, in the "current year" two of the worlds most prominent systems have found a bond in a very, what I thought was, prehistoric trait...until I met some of today's white liberals. Utterly paper thin skin. But back to today's subject!
Both have a shared hatred of bears. Bearaphobia if you will.
A couple of years ago, a teacher in Sudan named a teddy bear, Mohammed.The kids in said class were asked to take turns taking it home and looking after it. This caused a huge backlash and the teacher was asked to leave the islamic country. After of course being arrested. A likely preview of our future. What specifically about the least deadly of all the bears, sends shock waves through the religion of hate I'm not sure...*sidenote what's SuperTed up to these days?
The strange bedfellow in the, forgive me for sounding like a scally in 2002, "bear fear" boudoir is communist China and its banning of a cartoon bear after striking similarities between the cartoon (YES, CARTOON) and their tyrannical leader. If tyrannical leaders are this afraid of animal comparisons I really fear for the horses in New Zealand...
Winnie is not a name that can be attributed to a commie tyrant anymore than a teddy can be referred to by a sacred islamic name. On the face of it some long overdue good news for kids TV. With the lack of Bodger and Badger, Matthew Corbett and the trans agenda replacing the Chuckles, I don't envy modern children with TV addictions. But maybe if more bears feature in their favourite shows, the groomers and commies will back off.
On the worrying side of things, unlike older societies, bonding of systems may all be an amalgamation of their worst features. Expect a merging of the traditionally chinese face masks with the ugly muslims headdress to hit catwalks soon. Invest heavily in the label Hijab Dragon.
Expect also uniform beards, inspected regularly by the neighbourhood comrades. Not for hygiene reasons. Which I'd be fully supportive of. But for symmetry. Don't bother investing in beard hygiene products. Imagine if we invest early, we can make some serious "bunce" from the H.D dividends.
Let's hope more pointedly though, that we can use this fashion monstrosity as a signpost to wake up the masses to the danger accepting these beliefs systems into a country poses. If 23 years of unchecked grooming gangs, 300 million deaths worldwide, smelly (however symmetrical) beards, potential culling of bears doesn't do the job, maybe a very camp Mortal Kombat outfit will bring the masses into the real world.
Instead of the above, seemingly inevitable future, let's unite behind bears and the commies old enemy, the foo dogs. The repellents of tyrannic regimes past and present. I'll happily forfeit all the riches Hijab Dragon gave me for this alternative.
And what's more, with an economy in the toilet in the West, the tag teaming of anti tyrant symbols could become a money spinner in itself. Charlemagne and Alfred the Great mugs and key chains, Churchill and Queen Victoria...actually maybe not the best optics.
Unite behind our better features. Call out the rest for what they are. And leave our bears alone.