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https://www.vox.com/culture/22233197/orwellian-definition-george-orwell-1984-politics-english-language-josh-hawley-donald-trump-jr https://www.vox.com/culture/2

• coldtea 6y ago
  >How the right made the word “Orwellian” an empty cliché. Oh, the irony. And from VOX of all places. And basically amounting to "It's not Orwellian thought-crime persecution if we do it to those who indeed have criminal thoughts". Orwell himself had something opposite to say in 1944 no less: "It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else".