• Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]
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    11 months ago

    But also none of the dystopian fiction I read as a child had chanting slogans until you believed them as any sort of a plot point. Like, that just isn't a thing in any of the dystopian fiction I've read, and I've read some amount. I do not know what she's on about here.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      She just means newspeak from 1984. But because she doesn't want to say 1984 because she knows she'll be ridiculed for doing so, she attributes it to "dystopian fiction" as a whole.

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        11 months ago

        Wait till Ms. Fartlow finds out what Orwell thought about Jewish people