Animal Farm was definitely required reading for my public school in Jr. High. I went and read 1984 on my own after.
Dancing_Cthulhu on
Americans during the Cold War: “We’re going to use George Orwell’s works as anti-Communist propaganda”
Americans after the Cold War: “We’re going to regularly try to get George Orwell’s works banned for being too Communist.”
NimusNix on
MLK being murdered and then having socialists retcon the reason to be something they can use is gross.
He was murdered by a racist for the crime of being black and speaking out, just like Medgar Evers, Lamar Smith and James Earl Chaney.
Then_Version9768 on
Your comment is ignorant at best. In every school in which I’ve taught, both George Orwell’s writing including both 1984 and Animal Farm as well as MLK’s speeches and essays are taught every year. But if you went to Gooberville High School, maybe that explains why you think this way. This shows the absurdity of exaggerating based on only what you know.
SingleMaltMouthwash on
Abraham Lincoln was a fan of Karl Marx.
Ok_Rush_246 on
The alt right loves quoting Orwell. Unfortunately they think it’s a warning against communism as opposed to fascism.
No wonder they love to misinterpret the bible, stupid fucks can’t even comprehend 1984
darwinlovestrees on
Sharing? Fuck you. /americans
Tank-Factory187 on
B….b-bu-but that means they were helping the republicans! (They were socialist)
pastrythug on
Orwell’s body of work is the most important writing of the last century. Tt transcends most languages and can be read at an early age. Down and Out is missed by the majority of readers and Animal farm turned into Saturday cartoons. Every book was a hit in my humble opinion. Sometimes a prophet can’t help us.
Quirky_Garbage_5789 on
I agree w the meme, but not the post title: 1984 is taught, so is MLK, and those texts are widely available. If Americans have chosen to keep themselves ignorant, it’s on them and not the teachers.
tavo791 on
If you are against capitalism at any level, you are the enemy of the system. It’s unreal, what rises must fall down
Motor_Educator_2706 on
They would be mad if they could read
KerissaKenro on
Any educated, well liked, and respected public figure who is not a capitalist is almost universally a socialist
Edit: capitalist in the sense of being a millionaire/billionaire business owner. Not just embracing the economic philosophy. I realized how it sounded after I hit post
xesaie on
Almost as much as internet leftists misrepresent them!
They were complicated.
Important_Dream4484 on
lol right? they probably think documentaries are fake news. much easier to just believe what uncle bob says at bbq’s
alancar on
Old George ratted out his friends to the British government just like Reagan
CalculonsPride on
Wait till they hear about the beliefs of that Jesus guy.
bad_apiarist on
uh I did learn those things in public school?
Here’s something you should learn perhaps: knowledge doesn’t compel acceptance or changing of one’s opinions. Half of the political leaders you’ve ever heard of listed “Art of War” as a major influence on them even as many of them steadfastly ignored absolutely everything that book had to teach about war and peace.
Modern American Christians glorify a holy book where the son of their God says “love thy neighbor” and “it’s easier for a camel to fit through a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven”, yet this does not stop them salivating for excessive wealth or calling the secret police to have their harmless neighbors hauled away, or worse than hauled away.
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Is it because they’re socialists?
Animal Farm was definitely required reading for my public school in Jr. High. I went and read 1984 on my own after.
Americans during the Cold War: “We’re going to use George Orwell’s works as anti-Communist propaganda”
Americans after the Cold War: “We’re going to regularly try to get George Orwell’s works banned for being too Communist.”
MLK being murdered and then having socialists retcon the reason to be something they can use is gross.
He was murdered by a racist for the crime of being black and speaking out, just like Medgar Evers, Lamar Smith and James Earl Chaney.
Your comment is ignorant at best. In every school in which I’ve taught, both George Orwell’s writing including both 1984 and Animal Farm as well as MLK’s speeches and essays are taught every year. But if you went to Gooberville High School, maybe that explains why you think this way. This shows the absurdity of exaggerating based on only what you know.
Abraham Lincoln was a fan of Karl Marx.
The alt right loves quoting Orwell. Unfortunately they think it’s a warning against communism as opposed to fascism.
No wonder they love to misinterpret the bible, stupid fucks can’t even comprehend 1984
Sharing? Fuck you. /americans
B….b-bu-but that means they were helping the republicans! (They were socialist)
Orwell’s body of work is the most important writing of the last century. Tt transcends most languages and can be read at an early age. Down and Out is missed by the majority of readers and Animal farm turned into Saturday cartoons. Every book was a hit in my humble opinion. Sometimes a prophet can’t help us.
I agree w the meme, but not the post title: 1984 is taught, so is MLK, and those texts are widely available. If Americans have chosen to keep themselves ignorant, it’s on them and not the teachers.
If you are against capitalism at any level, you are the enemy of the system. It’s unreal, what rises must fall down
They would be mad if they could read
Any educated, well liked, and respected public figure who is not a capitalist is almost universally a socialist
Edit: capitalist in the sense of being a millionaire/billionaire business owner. Not just embracing the economic philosophy. I realized how it sounded after I hit post
Almost as much as internet leftists misrepresent them!
They were complicated.
lol right? they probably think documentaries are fake news. much easier to just believe what uncle bob says at bbq’s
Old George ratted out his friends to the British government just like Reagan
Wait till they hear about the beliefs of that Jesus guy.
uh I did learn those things in public school?
Here’s something you should learn perhaps: knowledge doesn’t compel acceptance or changing of one’s opinions. Half of the political leaders you’ve ever heard of listed “Art of War” as a major influence on them even as many of them steadfastly ignored absolutely everything that book had to teach about war and peace.
Modern American Christians glorify a holy book where the son of their God says “love thy neighbor” and “it’s easier for a camel to fit through a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven”, yet this does not stop them salivating for excessive wealth or calling the secret police to have their harmless neighbors hauled away, or worse than hauled away.
“But fox told me they were the good guys”