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The extent to which anti-communist propaganda was baked into my high school education.
We read 1984 and Animal Farm and for the longest time I thought it was just cool political reading to get us thinking, until I learned that Orwell was a snitch and a class traitor and it was all just “socialism bad”.
Orwell wasn’t even really a class traitor. His family was somewhat upper-middle class for the time (his father was a government officer doing opium trade stuff in India), and he even went to Eton (on scholarship, because his family’s not rich rich, I guess). And then he went and became a colonial cop in Burma.
If anything, he’s just a fed and a larper (famously, Orwell purposefully lived in working class areas in London and Paris, dressed like a tramp).
