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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"Cancelation" isn't a EUPHEMISM for murder if you don't actually murder the person It's just actually literally NOT MURDER The reason it's easier to "shrug off the severity" of someone being "canceled" vs someone being burned at the stake is it is A FACT that it is NOT SEVERE
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Your position here, that everyone fundamentally deserves to be listened to and taken seriously, and if you just stop doing that that's in the same moral category as murdering them, is absurd You won't state it directly because it sounds fucking ridiculous when you say it
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It's less of a big deal than if they do kill you, and saying that they did is, in fact, lying At least Orwell, who took a hard line against the irresponsible and lazy use of figurative language (especially repetitive clichés) in "Politics and the English Language", thought so
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