In a followup to this post, I am happy to report that the St. Pancras station piano has now been freed from Chinese commie oppression.
And pianist Brendan Kavanagh had a few things to say about the CCP:
He displays a Winnie the Pooh doll and picture because “Pooh has been banned by the CCP as being subversive, and apparently if you have Winnie the Pooh, your videos won’t be shown in the Chinese Mainland. This shows the power of the arts to undermine authoritarianism.”
The original video has “taken particularly off in Hong Kong, in Taiwan, and anyone who suffered from oppression.”
“We all know who [the oppressors] are: They are living Western lifestyles, but having a Communist authoritarian ideology.”
“This piano has become a CCP free zone. Yesterday, there was people from Hong Kong here. God bless Hong Kong, glory be to Hong Kong, and the people who put on the Hong Kong video. Their YouTube channel was immediately deleted.”
“I completely support the arts to undermine authoritarianism.”
“Winnie the Pooh has the ability to undermine authoritarian cultures. It’s not just political activism it’s actually the arts which they are afraid of.
“XiXi is frightened of Winnie, can you believe it? The Red Army is frightened of Winnie the Pooh because what they were doing they were comparing XiXi to Winnie. They said he looked a bit similar. XiXi’s feelings were hurt, and so he banned Winnie the Pooh completely from mainland China. So Winnie the Pooh has also become a symbol of free artistic expression in the face of unjust authoritarians.”
“It it was the Streisand Effect effects par excellence, this video.”
“I totally support Taiwan, and I totally support artistic expression.”
“The little pinks tried to shut us down they failed miserably.”
“This piano has become a CCP little pink free zone! God bless you all, thank you for supporting the video!”
A tiny, technical correction: The Communist Chinese are totalitarians rather than authoritarians, as they seek to control every aspect of life, not just rule an existing social structure. See Jeanne Kirkpatrick’s Dictatorships and Double Standards.
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4 Responses to “Follow-Up: Chinese Commies Can’t Chain Our Pianos”
IIRC there was a similar controversy a couple of years ago when a British barber shop posted a cardboard cutout of North Korean boss Kim Jong Un outside with the caption “Bad Hair Day?” Apparently the North Korean government (not just a couple of tourists) was not amused, but at least then the British told them where to go.
[T]he real action is in the reaction.—Saul Alinsky
The Chinese Communists imagined the Irish piano player would meekly accede to their demands. They never imagined a counterattack led by Winnie the Pooh.
Always fight back using any and all means at your disposal. The communist’s fear of reactionaries is well founded. They expect you to surrender without a struggle so take advantage of every opportunity to surprise and demoralize them.
Give them no rest; offer them no truce. There can be no ceasefire in the kulturkampf.
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IIRC there was a similar controversy a couple of years ago when a British barber shop posted a cardboard cutout of North Korean boss Kim Jong Un outside with the caption “Bad Hair Day?” Apparently the North Korean government (not just a couple of tourists) was not amused, but at least then the British told them where to go.
[T]he real action is in the reaction.—Saul Alinsky
The Chinese Communists imagined the Irish piano player would meekly accede to their demands. They never imagined a counterattack led by Winnie the Pooh.
Always fight back using any and all means at your disposal. The communist’s fear of reactionaries is well founded. They expect you to surrender without a struggle so take advantage of every opportunity to surprise and demoralize them.
Give them no rest; offer them no truce. There can be no ceasefire in the kulturkampf.
Some Winnie the Pooh nose art on our PACAF aircraft would be in order.
[…] Nepalese, and Dominican YouTuber traumatized after visit to communist Cuba BattleSwarm: Follow-Up: Chinese Commies Can’t Chain Our Pianos, A Naive Look At The Homeless Industrial Complex, and Debunking The “700,000 Truckers To Texas” […]