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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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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Anyway even Animal Farm, which I like substantially less than 1984, gets misread by propagandists as being a much shallower book than it is You all know it's an expression of cynical defeatism, right None of the human farmers are good people either
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