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2023-10-18 -Great Cultural Revolution

Orwellian Irony: The Left is Now Trying to Cancel George Orwell

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-18 02:39|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 I guess I missed it when I read that book. Could this be yet another case of left-wing projection?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-10-18 11:13|| 2023-10-18 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 So Anna Funder had a mission: to exaggerate the Fem-importance of Orwell's wife? What better way than to trash the author/man

Posted by Frank G 2023-10-18 11:34|| 2023-10-18 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The Trump of his time. Figures they'd make a backstabber out of his wife.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-18 11:38|| 2023-10-18 11:38|| Front Page Top

#4 It’s almost like they are rewriting history to suit the new orthodoxy. Who could have predicted that?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-10-18 12:37|| 2023-10-18 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 They're close. 1984 will be remembered for the now corrected reasons. Orwell won't be history for some time - that will need to be rediscovered along with Tolkien, Heinlen, CS Lewis...etc.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-10-18 14:44|| 2023-10-18 14:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Another house nagger splains irksome Eric [Solnit at Amazon].

Posted by Thrumble Snumble4393 2023-10-18 14:51|| 2023-10-18 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Old news. The left has hated Orwell for a long time. First for betraying them by revealing that English socialists despised and ridiculed the working class, and then by writing two classic novels that reveal exactly what socialism does when it takes over.

Did anyone seriously think they LIKED Orwell? WTF?

Posted by Ulomorong Croting3271 2023-10-18 17:50|| 2023-10-18 17:50|| Front Page Top

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