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Democracy! (lemmygrad.ml)
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[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 1 year ago

I hate Orwell, but man was right about the doublespeak thing.

western MSM will say "democracy" when they're talking about western leaning dictatorships, and "dictatorship" when they're talking about non-western democracies.

The only "democracy" in French West Africa is what has been built by its local inhabitants, not what the white man has forced upon them. Full solidarity with the coups, freedom comes from the barrel of a gun.

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago

He worked for the BBC, didn't he? So he would speak from experience there

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Orwell never said "doublespeak". That was a thinking that stupid political cartoonists made up to describe "when a politician says one thing to one audience and another thing to another audience". Orwell's thing was "doublethink," which was "holding two contradicatory beliefs at the same time". You know, like the belief Orwell was an actual leftist and spent all of his time decrying actually existing socialism with no positive alternative.

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

He didn’t coin “doublespeak” but the term was a conflation of his “doublethink” and “Newspeak.”

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