• BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Pretty sure I read George Orwell was an informant against actual communists so I’m not surprised he’d write something like this

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      2 years ago

      That shitstain worked for the British Foreign Office's propaganda department and handed them a blacklist of secret communists, fellow travelers, sympathizers, and known members of the CPGB.

      He even had the gall to include his own personal notes on them. Example: The All-American hero, African Internationalist, Football star, Actor, Singer, and Lawyer Paul Robeson whom had wrote "Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you." George Orwell wrote next to his name "Anti-white"

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Also marked which ones were gay, which was still criminalized in the UK at the time and punished with things like forced therapy with anti-androgens.