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 @arthur_affect
George Orwell got shot in the throat fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. What have you done to earn your keep?
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Replying to @dsoper3
I'm actually gonna go so far as to seriously say that whatever he did in the war, it does have to be balanced against giving the Cold War paranoiacs a massive blunt instrument they've wielded against the Left in general for 70 years Intentionally or not, that's how it was used
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dsoper3
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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