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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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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I'm not even saying this to defend the Russian revolutionaries, I'm no tankie But a history book about the Trump administration for the children of 2048 shouldn't just be a John Oliver episode presented with no other context
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It extremely bothers me tbh
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— and like, I’m a Soviet Jew, much of my family remained commies, and like! Orwell’s tidy little Aesop elides a fuckton of nuances, especially the complex ethnocultural + racial power dynamics in the USSR in general and among the Bolsheviks in particular
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I spent a decade in Vietnam. While there, a publisher put out a translation of Animal Farm. Everyone was shocked that the Ministry of Culture allowed it and bought copies. (I got one too.) They were pulled from sale when someone finally noticed it wasn't about animals.
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