• RedSquid
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    1 year ago

    Not reading 1984 would honestly make him smarter

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      1 year ago

      Yeah idk. I just couldn’t imagine being so stupid that you think that would be worth saying to someone. It’s just embarrassing.

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        They forced us to read Animal Farm in school, but not 1984 oddly enough. George Orwell isn’t even an entertaining writer alongside being a propagandist for empire. And an attempted rapist. And a plaigiarist. And a racist. And a homophobe. And worst of all he was English.

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          We had to read “The Giver” when I was in school. Similar premise. Never realized that it was all anti communist propaganda until I was older.