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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But now it's the reverse High school kids are learning about the history of the Russian Revolution *from Animal Farm* Their *initial exposure* to the conflict between Stalin and Trotsky is through the cutesy metaphor about Napoleon and Snowball Doesn't that bother anyone?
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You're learning about history via a polemical satire? And not even very deeply -- not going into Orwell's own history as having fought with a Trotskyist militia etc, just saying "Orwell was a smart guy and he knew these people were bad"
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