Judging by their reaction to Margaret Atwood, they haven't read the Handmaid's Tale either
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OMG, right?! They're, like, Orwellizing Orwell?
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Except trans isn't a different sex, seperate to male or female. It's also not an identity platform.
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Fun anecdote: I quote “down and out” a lot for that passage about twists of tea and takeaway food in the course of my work explaining how poverty is a structural thing Once someone accused me of being Orwellian in my advocacy I did, in fact, survive the laughing fit
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No. They just write them and ride on the coattails of their overwhelming success for decades while retroactively amending them via twitter.
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It’s the fun thing with Orwell: everybody, of whatever political or social beliefs, likes to think he was supporting their cause and criticising their opponents.
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I would think that anyone who's had the most cursory glance at his works and his actual lived experiences would have him firmly in the Team Socialism camp, even if he enjoyed the odd moan about socialists.
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Not only that, but they're more often than not being the very thing they're supposedly decrying *as they say this.*
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