I mean, Orwell did have shitty "get off my lawn" sentiments about neologisms and slang, that's what his essay Politics and the English Language is about, but that's not what Newspeak in 1984 is His own thoughts on the issue were clearly somewhat muddled
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RedOphiuchus and
One can create jargon to avoid thinking, it doesn’t need to be the same model, hence “whiteness” and “systemic racism,” terms used by people who aren’t experts in anything to describe systems, with a kernel of truth, with no intent to understand or fix them.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
so your argument is that creating terminology that allows one to re-examine assumptions of how the world works is bad? and somehow the other side is The Party?
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Replying to @fennecfoxguy @arthur_affect and
I'm confused just because "systemic racism" absolutely is an academic term, so who's supposed to be the experts who aren't using it
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Replying to @LizardOrman @fennecfoxguy and
Right, it absolutely is an academic term. That doesn’t mean it is used by experts.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @LizardOrman and
do you not consider Black people, and specifically Black academics, analysts, and historians, to be experts on racism?
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Replying to @fennecfoxguy @LizardOrman and
No, People aren’t experts in racism because of what they look like, historians can be if that is their expertise, and I’m not sure what “analysts” means here, so it depends.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @fennecfoxguy and
People are experts because they acquire expertise, just like in physics, not because they are up or down-gradient of power. That is the Critical Theory drug, it’s pretty lame.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @fennecfoxguy and
Hey have you thought at all about what 1984 means when it has Winston wistfully think that all hope lies with the proles (and that Party dissidents like him can never actually succeed, because of who they are)
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So you remember the part of Goldstein's book about the war among the Low, Middle and High? You know that's what you're talking about right, and you think it's a good thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @alongdongsilver and
("White moderates" aren't the proles good fucking Lord)
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