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Posted on 06/23/2025 12:26:11 PM PDT by Angelino97
On Monday’s America This Week Walter Kirn read from a bizarre introduction to his 75th Anniversary edition paperback edition of 1984. Written by Harvard-educated author Dolen Perkins-Valdez, it came with a trigger warning.
I had to go looking for the foreword by Perkins-Valdez, a black female writer whose Twitter page features a line from the “discussion questions” portion of her book Take My Hand: “History repeats what we don’t remember.”
In Take My Hand Perkins-Valdez stressed the importance of remembering episodes like the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and the use of the Henrietta Lacks cell line. Her essay about 1984 argues at length that Orwell’s fictional dystopia is misremembered malinformation. She takes issue with this passage:
"Nor is there any racial discrimination, or any marked domination of one province by another. Jews, Negroes, South Americans of pure Indian blood are to be found in the highest ranks of the Party, and the administrators of any area are always drawn from the inhabitants of that area. In no part of Oceania do the inhabitants have the feeling that they are a colonial population…"
“When I read this,” Perkins-Valdez wrote, “I can’t help but think of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and its publication in the United States just a year after 1984 was published in Britain. In Ellison’s novel, whites don’t see blacks, while in Orwell’s novel, there are no black characters at all. As a contemporary reader, I find myself self-pausing.”
Orwell was a great satirist, but he’d have had a tough time inventing something as clever as a reviewer of 1984, whose protagonist is a professional history-fixer, not seeing the irony in asking for more references to race or colonialism or misogyny to better fit modern political attitudes.
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I was on Reddit the other day and there was a discussion about Animal Farm. The dolts there were spinning it like it was about fascists (and therefore Republicans.)
I weep for the future.
Of course, when Orwell wrote in 1948, Britain was still 99% white, so the “indigenous rulers” of the Party would also be white. But why split hairs? For all we know, Big Brother is a mulatto lesbian dwarf.
Orwell was being sarcastic..............
Some few individuals see racism where ever they look. Usually it’s a demonstration of their own inferiority complex.
Reddit and Wikipedia are the correct place to learn the leftist version of....
just about anything and everything.
If they get something correct it is like a broken clock—gets the time right twice a day.
"We provide a place on Reddit for conservatives, both fiscal and social, to read and discuss political and cultural issues from a distinctly conservative point of view."
I know it is there—but 99.9% of Reddit is leftist propaganda.
I can assure you it’s not just Reddit. Quora has a lot of leftist propagandists too.
In his book “Blood Money”, Peter Schweizer indicated there are 10s of thousands of Chinese military officers online influencing social media.
Good point on quora—they are horrid at best.
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