I genuinely think it's time to cancel Orwell Not because he was personally problematic or had problematic politics (though there's an argument for both) But because his Internet fanbase are the most insufferable human beings known to modern science
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Hey, I didn't say anyone was being murdered and then go "It was a uhhhhh metaphor"
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So yeah, when you say something inflammatory like "cancel culture is a way to make murder sound respectable", it's perfectly fair to ask "Who actually got murdered" It's what Uncle George would want (WWGD)
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At the risk of both-sidesing here. The words like "problematic" were and are meant to be pretty specific. They aren't euphemisms at all. There *is* a tendency among the "woke" to laser-focus on language, which I think throws people off.
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That focus on language is IMO taking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and reading it wrong, as it were. But that's a whole different thing, and orthogonal to what Arthur is talking about.
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