Winnie-the-Pooh book teaches Texas kids to ‘run, hide, fight’ in a shooting

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/winnie-the-pooh-books-teaches-texas-kids-run-hide-fight-shooting

by detaro • 3 years ago

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MattGaiser• 3 years ago

“should the unthinkable occur”

Yet so common that things like this book make sense.

salad-tycoon• 3 years ago

Unthinkable does not have anything to do with probability. Rather, it’s something the author would prefer to not think about.

Also, you saying it’s common is a judgement call and not a true frequency call.

It can be both unthinkable and uncommon and possible.

injb• 3 years ago

I think the right phrase is something like "worth thinking about" rather than "common". It's like the "in the very unlikely event of a water landing..." you hear on airplanes. It is very unlikely but there's something relatively easy you can do that will improve your chances if it does happen.

Either way, it's disturbing that this might be "worth thinking about".

detaro2• 3 years ago

The book features the honey-loving bear created by AA Milne and illustrator EH Shepard instructing kids about how to react to a mass shooting. It is not an official production, Winnie-the-Pooh has been in the public domain since 1 January 2022.

Not what I expected from "well-known childrens franchise goes public domain"

singleshot_• 3 years ago

I really hate to be the one to inform you about the Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie.

detaro2• 3 years ago

"Turn cute characters into a splatter thing" wasn't that surprising IMHO (see thousands of low-profile early-2000s flash animations), although how big of a thing it became was a bit unexpected.

jfengel• 3 years ago

Precisely what I expected from "well-known children's franchise goes public domain".

The main thing I've learned from the Internet is that, while most people aren't terrible, the most terrible people have the most time on their hands. In a room with 100 people, one of them is the most depraved asshole. And that is the one whose actions will be most important.

EscapeFromNY• 3 years ago

A. A. Milne is turning in his grave.

candiddevmike• 3 years ago

If there is danger, the police will come fast to catch the stranger

Oh the irony of having this in Texas. Instead of having real 2nd amendment reform, lets give everyone a book to cope with the new reality.

rayiner• 3 years ago

Instead of having real 2nd amendment reform

How do you propose to reform the second amendment?

nickthegreek• 3 years ago

Interpreting a well regulated militia to actually mean something.

brink2• 3 years ago

More importantly - we could also try to fix the division and culture issues that stirs up the violence, but for separate reasons, no-one wants to do that either. Interestingly we'd rather make people impotent than good.

taserian• 3 years ago

Who gets to define "good"?

Volundr• 3 years ago

Honestly I'll take any action. Is it a mental health issue? Let's take action to address those issues. Parenting? Figure out how to improve parent involvement, resources, etc. "division and culture issues that stirs up the violence"? Great how do we DO something about that.

Too often these "it's not the guns it's X", then use that as an excuse to do nothing rather than focus on solving X. I tend to side with the folks pushing for gun restrictions more because they are actually pushing to try something rather than doing nothing.

jstarfish2• 3 years ago

I'm a pacifist, and generally side with law enforcement even through their fuckups, but someone deserved to hang over the Uvalde shitshow. Accidentally killing suspects who may or may not have been uppity is doing your job poorly, but leaving a bunch of defenseless kids locked in a labyrinth with a gunman is not doing your job at all.

Between coward cops and dissolute gunmen at school or work, it's never too late to learn how to build a proper barricade. Don't stack furniture in front of the door like in zombie movies; the door already serves the purpose of blocking-- instead, hunker down in a classroom/office and build a train of furniture extending from the door to the opposing wall sturdy enough that anybody trying to open it is pushing a column of furniture against a wall instead of shifting a pile of shitty MDF. Then get the hell away from line-of-sight of the door. Expect bullets fired through it in frustration.

hirundo• 3 years ago

On the following page, Kanga and baby Roo are shown wearing boxing gloves. The text says: “If danger finds us, don’t stay, run away. If we can’t get away, we have to FIGHT with all our might.”

That's just the message I got from my own parent. Dad said GTFO, but if you can't, fight like hell and don't fight fair. (Then he gave some specific suggestions.) It may not be good advice for a four-year old, but it's a good algorithm to implant early.

jstarfish2• 3 years ago

I'm told this is the foundation of Krav Maga.

Ancapistani2• 3 years ago

It's a reasonable strategy. I follow it, and I've taught my children the same.

I don't think it's suitable for a children's book to be sent home with kids without additional explanation or context, though.

Winnie-the-Pooh book teaches Texas kids to ‘run, hide, fight’ in a shooting

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