It means dickhead conservatives get to fill in their own version of the history, which they have done, to the point where "creeping Orwellianism" fanfiction giving an origin story to the Party is basically better known than the actual plot of the actual book
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Like you people's Orwell fandom even transparently comes from Animal Farm and 1984 being assigned reading in public school curriculums (with a specific framing from being assigned during the Cold War)
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You haven't even read another book *by him*, much less seriously engaged with anyone building off of him or critiquing him
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One side is arguing something stupid because they really want James to be wrong about Critical Theory and their whole ideology that gets everything wrong. But all the cool kids are into it, so why not, everyone needs to get ahead somehow.
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But yea, let’s bash Orwell because all the cool kids who within about 5 years, all started thinking the exact same slogans and using an alternative language at the institutional level, but hella shit god forbid the internets points it out.
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