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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecondInternat1
Also, that's a pretty wild rhetorical framing Acting like not killing someone is some kind of sinister, manipulative strategy to avoid censure for killing someone, by... not doing it
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Replying to @Julio_Vichon @SecondInternat1
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecondInternat1
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecondInternat1
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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Replying to @Julio_Vichon @SecondInternat1
I didn't say anyone was being murdered You guys did You literally brought up Orwell's essay saying "canceling" was a way "to make murder sound respectable" Fuck's sake
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