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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      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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    3. SecondInternationalist‏ @SecondInternat1 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Julio_Vichon @arthur_affect

      It's interesting that words like "cancel" and "Problematic" are lineal descendants of the sort of communist political euphemism described by Orwell and designed to make "murder seem respectable" as the man himself put it.

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @SecondInternat1

      Please give me a complete list of people who, after being described on Twitter as "problematic" or "canceled", were then physically killed by agents of the state

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    5. SecondInternationalist‏ @SecondInternat1 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I suggest you read Orwell beyond 1984 to see what I am getting at. The quote is from Politics and the English Language.

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @SecondInternat1

      Yes, and when Orwell said "murder", he presumably meant "murder", as in physically attacking someone's body in some way so that they cease to live and become a corpse Since the point of that article was ranting about literal precision in language

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Julio_Vichon @SecondInternat1

      Well, Orwell, in his famous essay "Politics and the English Language", said it was very important for people to clearly say what they actually mean instead of burying everything in dishonest rhetoric (especially rhetoric built on thoughtless clichés)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SecondInternat1

      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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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @Julio_Vichon @SecondInternat1

          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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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @SecondInternat1

          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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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @SecondInternat1

          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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