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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @Julio_Vichon @SecondInternat1
I mean, for better or for worse, I haven't escaped, I'm right here
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