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?

    • booty [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      how many gay people and communists did asimov snitch on to the government?

      • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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        7 months ago

        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

        • booty [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          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

    • camaron30 [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      I've actually read Homage to Catalonia, so the same number as Orwell. Zero.

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        7 months ago

        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.

      • TRexBear
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        7 months ago

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      • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        no one:

        online "leftists": ackshually, after reading homage to catalonia, I decided I was an anarchist.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      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?