Frankly, Orwell was a conservative. If he was alive today we'd be lumping him in with the PatSocs or those UK TERF communists.
I think he means teetotalers which to be fair every old teetotaler I know was either a Puritan, a Communist or most commonly both
OK guys, I have a confession to make. I hope this doesn't get me banned, but I feel called out and I just have to say it. Sometimes, I . . . well, sometimes . . . sometimesIwearsandals. OK? OK?????? I wear sandals sometimes. I'm a sandal-wearer. But only when the weather is appropriate, I swear! I would never wear sandals when it's cold out. Never! I am a Midwesterner, but not the kind that wears flip fops in the snow.
So, now you know my deep, dark secret.
TillieNeuen looked disgusting -- toes protruding -- in her sockless sandles before Hexbear. very very disrespectful.
Ah, then you, like I, have not reached the true depths of depravity that is sandal-wearing.
That quote reminds me of the Norm Macdonald bit where he googles Hitler and finds out who he is for the first time, except it's totally serious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzRb_lErFw
lmao thanks, it's a hilarious bit.
I enjoy Norm, only conservative I know respect for:-
Recognizing that jokes against vulnerable minorities can bring them harm
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Actually managing to be funny
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Pretty sure I read George Orwell was an informant against actual communists so I’m not surprised he’d write something like this
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"
He also labelled civil rights activists in his snitch book as "anti-white"
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.
same energy as whining about blue haired femimists and reposting that still frame of that woman in a hi vis jacket yelling
sandal wearing feminists all they know is not respect their proper place in the household, drink fruit juice and lie
also why does george hate quakers that’s weird george, they’re nice and like the only christians I know who support trans rights
United Church of Christ supports trans rights too. They would rebaptize with real name, no questions asked.
Maybe a thing about pacifism? I've heard they got a lot of shit for maintaining their pacifism and being conscientious objectors during both ww1 and ww2.
Someone who is not on mobile (and drunk) find the James Connolly quote like this. The one that says "faddists and cranks"
In the first place, I have long been of opinion that the Socialist movement elsewhere was to a great extent hampered by the presence in its ranks of faddists and cranks, who were in the movement, not for the cause of Socialism, but because they thought they saw in it a means of ventilating their theories on such questions as sex, religion, vaccination, vegetarianism, etc., and I believed that such ideas had or ought to have no place in our programme or in our party.
I understand the sentiment but tbh good luck trying to completely overhaul material relations without any of that stuff ever coming up.
I'll post the rest of the paragraph because I think it addresses your point
I held that, if under the Socialist Republic individuals desired to have a Freethinker’s propagandist, a Jewish Rabbi, a mesmerist, a Catholic priest, a Salvation captain, a professional clown, or a Protestant divine, they would be perfectly free to maintain them for any of these purposes provided that society was reimbursed for the loss of their labour. In other words, that Socialism was compatible with the greatest intellectual freedom, or even freakishness. And that, therefore, we were as a body concerned only with the question of political and economic freedom for our class. We could not claim to have a mission to emancipate the human mind from all errors, for the simple reason that we were not and are not the repositories of all truth. These simple propositions, as they appear to me, I saw to be neglected by the tendency on the part of the European Socialists as a whole to make their press and platform the stumping ground for every idea that had the distinction of being unconventional or in any manner a protest against established ideas. But in the press and platform of the Socialist Labour Party of the United States I found that this tendency was very faint indeed, and that they, in their own felicitous phrase, borrowed from. the days of backwoods tree-felling, ‘hewed close to the line’ of the class struggle, and would not allow themselves to be seduced into any more speculative theories,
We could not claim to have a mission to emancipate the human mind from all errors, for the simple reason that we were not and are not the repositories of all truth.
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Fucking fruit juice drinkers cramping our style :meow-tableflip:
:geordi-no: Veganism struggle session
:geordi-yes: Fruit juice drinking struggle session
My thoughts are that Orwell was the :funny-clown-hammer: of his day
Alienated people looking for an avenue away from alienation. Colour me surprised. Sometimes it feels like some of the biggest schisms come down to the difference in perspective between those who are primarily alienated by capitalism and those who are primarily oppressed.
