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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He probably didn't mean it to become this sacred text of Burkean conservatism that it became in the hands of American schoolteachers But hey, we are in the end judged by the effects of our actions, not our intentions
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(Something he said CONSTANTLY to attack other leftists in the 40s, saying that anyone who expressed antiwar sentiments was "objectively on the side of Hitler" etc)
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I mean he wasn't wrong about Stalinist Russia, but I could pay off my student loans with a nickel for every conservative who's yelled "hAvE yOu ReAd OrWeLl" at me after Sean Hannity told them Animal Farm was a metaphor for Obamacare.
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It's honestly kind of messed up, however you feel about Animal Farm as history, that when he wrote it he was telling this snarky parable about current events that his audience was generally familiar with and could pick up on
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