Critical SocJus thinks that everything is a battleground of power, including art, comedy, discourse, and everything else, that the privileged oppressors always act to exploit the oppressed, and constantly raising awareness to this will help bring about utopia.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
so on the one hand there’s a group that bases its worldview in racism and classism, ie, idealizing defeating the enemy other to succeed, and on the other hand you have a group that believes the first group is trying to succeed through racism
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Replying to @fennecfoxguy @arthur_affect and
Yes and yes, but for the latter, they believe in more than that.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
by your definitions of both groups, the existence of the former proves the accuracy of the latter
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Replying to @fennecfoxguy @JeremyPhilosoph and
In fact, this is my thing as a fan of Orwell but honestly more of a fan of pre-WWII Orwell than Animal Farm and 1984 Orwell, where you can see the signs of him evolving into Christopher Hitchens Orwell did start thinking like this, and it's an ugly thing to think
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
It undermines him and it makes him contradict himself Bluntly, it's doublethink, and it's doublethink that Hitchens, who worshiped Orwell, resolved by eventually just becoming a conservative (Fortunately for Orwell the more mundane infection of tuberculosis got him first)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
The essay "The Prevention of Literature" all his modern fans like (the minority who've read his other work), the whole rant that the censorship once practiced by the Church and the aristocrats is now coming from inside the house, from the Left It's a big-standard rant now
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
But moreover it's fucked up that he thought this He was WRONG He wrote this in 1946 and predicted that soon Marxist-Leninist ideology would become dominant among the Western intelligentsia, that you wouldn't be able to say bad things about communism, the USSR or Stalin
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
That the Left as an institution had won, the Right was already dead and didn't know it, and the great danger was now the revolution being betrayed *In 1946* What the FUCK
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
One year before the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten by HUAC and the election of Joe McCarthy to the Senate in 1947, six years before the execution of the Rosenbergs
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All this stuff that still lay in the future -- Korea, Vietnam, COINTELPRO, the Birchers, the Minutemen, Kent State, Watergate The right wing wasn't even close to dead, the conservatives hadn't even gotten started fighting yet
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
That's a very American perspective, of course, and I'm sure it looked different to Orwell as a British socialist in Atlee's England whose friends were all British socialists and who basically never interacted with Tories except via letters to the editor etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
Plus Stalin winning and expanding influence into Germany. I get it, it's just wrong.
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