As a nine year old I thought the Death Eaters were meant to be like the Nazis, but I guess Rowling is so dumb she didn’t make the connection until after she wrote them?
As a nine year old I thought the Death Eaters were meant to be like the Nazis, but I guess Rowling is so dumb she didn’t make the connection until after she wrote them?
2004
sooo good.
better then when Asimov tore apart 1984
How many fascists did Asimov kill with grenades, eh?
how many gay people and communists did asimov snitch on to the government?
Basically just Peter Smollett. Like the list is some brain wormed and harmful shit, and clearly shows Orwell to be a racist, homophobic, anticommunist monster, but nobody in the British government gave a shit about the list, and the communists he actually managed to name were already pretty public about it except for Smollett. But the British government ignored the list so it didn’t matter.
Like E. H. Carr and Isaac Deutscher weren’t exactly secret about it. Carr was speaking on the radio about the need for an Anglo-Soviet socialist alliance, and Isaac Deutschers position on the matter had been known publicly since the early 40s. Same for most other communists he writes about. Other people he named like Kingsley Martin were anti communists, some were libs.
Orwell didn’t snitch, or at least his primary thing wasn’t snitching, that word gives him too much credit. Snitching implies you’re aware of something and telling it to an authority who will use that information and Orwell did neither. He was an ignorant, racist, homophobic, anticommunist dipshit who wrote commentary on publicly avowed socialists, libs he didn’t like, and people who had turned down his manuscripts, and handed it to the british governemnt who promptly threw it in the trash. At best he’s an attempted snitch. Too much of a dumbass to properly snitch
He was a snitch, he was just terrible at it. Much like how he was a writer, but terrible at that too.
The moment you try to snitch you’re a snitch. Whether the people you’re snitching to do anything useful with your snitching is another matter entirely
I’ve actually read Homage to Catalonia, so the same number as Orwell. Zero.
Zero, and went home to whine and moan about the communist faction.
Astonishing that anyone on here feels the need to defend this colonial cop.
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no one:
online “leftists”: ackshually, after reading homage to catalonia, I decided I was an anarchist.
How many Jews, reds and gays did he report to the British intelligence services? How much anti-communist propaganda about the USSR did he publish without ever visiting it?
I double dog dare you to read a book
Le Guin is the goat. My favorite author. Terry Pratchett too, but Le Guin’s the goat.
These two are people I read and realize I barely know English. Like their command of the language is so good I wish I could do anything with such skill as they write.
I also get that impression from Le Guin’s work. I wish I’d found her as a child. I remember that the only author I ever read who struck me that way as a kid was Tolkien. I recently read The Left Hand of Darkness and I was like “oh yeah, this is what it felt like to be sitting under my covers 2 hours past my bed time struggling to appreciate the work of a master of the English language”
Been rereading Tolkien and Its clear why they’re classics. Writting generally stands above even with it’s flaws. But it really gotta read Le Guin. Every book I’ve read is great yet I’ve missed many