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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Orwell's retrospective look at the life and work of Charles Dickens is so much more interesting and thoughtful than him turning "M-Ls are pigs!" into a whole fucking book
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One of the choicer excerpts from that essay is the observation that for the Anglo nations, racist name-calling is not just a vice but a hobby
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