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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I mean what less bad thing than murder happened to these victims of cancelation Were they put in the back of a van and taken away to a "work camp"? Were they actually literally "ostracized", forced at spearpoint to leave the city and go live in the hills for ten years?
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Were they actually "tarred and feathered" or "run out of town on a rail"? The old school hyperbolic clichéd figures of speech for "being canceled" that Orwell found so grating? I don't think a single drop of hot tar has ever touched the skin of Bari Weiss
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