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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It's not a euphemism for murder if no one got murdered! "Canceled" isn't even a euphemism at all, it's ironic hyperbole, it's an *exaggeration* (A person cannot be "canceled" and cease to exist like a TV show, unless, I guess, you murder them We just stop liking them)
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Ha ha the hilarious thing is this is something Orwell literally went through He fought with the POUM (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) in Spain, a Trotskyist org, which after they were defeated got smeared by both orthodox Communists and right-wingers as "wreckers"
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And he was like "If we were wreckers and bomb-throwers, what exactly did we wreck? What bombs were thrown? Show me your evidence because that's not how I remember it, it seems like you just make up abstract atrocities out of thin air whenever someone's politics discomfort you"
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