@SarahKWilliam @Justin_Guess@BuzzFeedNews No one said anything about Joe Biden. Last I checked Madison Cawthorn never ran against Biden. We’re talking about a guy who lies constantly, fawns over Hitler, and is clearly a white supremacist.
@Warrior04933682 @JCHILL_SVE @AlinaCarrasquil @HRC Given that Trump’s education secretary had never stepped foot in a public school I don’t care what she looks like if she’s qualified, a-hole.
@Warrior04933682 @JCHILL_SVE @AlinaCarrasquil @HRC Stop flooding my replies. You haven’t posted a video, just screenshots of articles about Rand Paul being a dick.
@Gary53044733@yodamaster808@dananessel 1984 would’ve had absolutely no problem with what is happening right now. It would’ve had a problem with things like Trump’s patriotic education plan, or the claims by the right that the Capitol invaders were antifa. It’s not about people on Twitter getting mad at you.
@Gary53044733@yodamaster808@dananessel This is such a blatant misinterpretation of what 1984 was trying to do. The meanings of words haven’t even been changed. People on the internet telling you to use a word they believe to be less offensive isn’t what Orwell feared. He was scared of fascists, not liberals.
@JCHILL_SVE @Warrior04933682 @AlinaCarrasquil @HRC They aren’t teaching kids “to be transgender,” they’re teaching kids to not hate themselves if they are. Fuck you and don’t have kids.
@Gary53044733@yodamaster808@dananessel Another thing — no one is saying you have a right to society free of offense. You aren’t persecuted for not saying they/them. Someone on Twitter telling you to be a decent person is not anywhere close to 1984 or even to any significant oppression. It’s a dumb comparison.
@Gary53044733@yodamaster808@dananessel I really think you should reread the book if the message that you took from it is that referring to transgender people by their preferred pronouns is just one step on the slippery slope to you being spied on by the fascist dictators who torture you for not bowing to them.
@Gary53044733@yodamaster808@dananessel Ok, you did read it, you just missed the point. Orwell wasn’t scared of gender neutral pronouns or people asking you to use up to date terms. He was scared of totalitarianism and endless wars and fascism. He was also a lib left socialist. Trump would’ve scared him more than this.
@Gary53044733@yodamaster808@dananessel Ngl I don’t think you’ve actually read 1984. If you have then you completely missed the message because it wasn’t about *checks notes* people on Twitter saying some terms are offensive.