The irony that the author was red scared… all this authoritarianism… certainly Trump’s a commie.
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stardustsystem@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Read 1984, if you haven’t already.
This is exactly what The Party does through simplifying the Newspeak dictionary - targeting words to remove from the lexicon to make even communicating against The Party’s narrative impossible.
DEI is being Unpersoned
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The author was that after getting a look at how Stalin’s USSR worked.
I think we can agree that even a marxist-themed totalitarianism in an English-speaking country is extremely unlikely to be Stalinist, thus similar to 1984.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The author got backstabbed and almost killed by Stalinists, who turned on them instead of fighting the fascists.
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This is why it’s essential, now more than ever, to keep these words and notions alive, let the truth be an act of rebellion in itself.
Life is meaningless without diversity, and it is up to each and every one of us to protect it.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They usually don’t care, they just claim some imaginary East-Asian country banned any kind of self-expression to the point all people are wearing the same clothes, which made crime disappear over night or some similar bullshit. They want to claim humans are not different by nature.