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2019-07-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

Book Review: Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-01 07:26|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Well the The Atlantic accepts racism to empower socialism...

Posted by Spanky Whuter1088 2019-07-01 08:18|| 2019-07-01 08:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Near the end is this nugget:

Progressive doublethink—which has grown worse in reaction to the right-wing kind—creates a more insidious unreality because it operates in the name of all that is good. Its key word is justice—a word no one should want to live without. But today the demand for justice forces you to accept contradictions that are the essence of doublethink.

For example, many on the left now share an unacknowledged but common assumption that a good work of art is made of good politics and that good politics is a matter of identity. This confusion of categories guides judgments all across the worlds of media, the arts, and education, from movie reviews to grant committees.

Posted by Bobby 2019-07-01 11:17|| 2019-07-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

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