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 want to grab all those high school teachers and scream "WORK THROUGH THE METAPHOR WHO ARE *YOU* IN THIS STORY YOU ARE ONE OF THE SHEEP ON THE NEIGHBORING FOXWOOD ESTATE AND YOU THINK MR. PILKINGTON REALLY LOVES HIS ANIMALS")
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Also his grim prediction of the future at the end of the book is just wrong The USSR does not, after the founding of the UN, settle in and become just another one of the community of nations
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I cried over Boxer the horse so much as a kid.
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Boxer's story is the best thing in this book And it applies equally to the lies told to the working class under American market capitalism or Soviet state capitalism/"communism" And it's reprehensible this gets taught as something that only happened in Russia
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