Orwell dismisses that In his mind the bad guys are the bad guys because they will burn all the books and destroy the language and make everything different and strange and kill everything he loves Because it's about his own shit as much as it is an honest appraisal of Stalin
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This is a very common stance It's almost the MOST common way Orwell gets invoked nowadays, and why Orwell's face in a profile is such a red flag It's because of this kneejerk *aesthetic* response of "complication and sophistication is deception - plain speech is the defense"
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Orwell himself thought like that and talked like that a lot It's a shame, because it's a straight line to conservatism I think it was something he struggled with internally ("Do I hold crypto-counterrevolutionary views? No, it is the children who are wrong")
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I have an anecdote. A friend of mine was the only female student in an honors math program at an Ivy League university & pushed out rather than mentored when she had a B average in her classes. Making the curriculum more inclusive won’t eradicate the power systems mainiging them.
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If anything, it sounds like making the curriculum more diverse and inclusive would result in people like your friend being less likely to be the “only” anything in their program (or diverse in such a way that there isn’t an overwhelming clique).
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