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by beaconstudios 1695 days ago
Given he was writing about a mix of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, I don't think the tendency for social justice people to assign overly provocative words to their ideas is worse than those places.
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I don't think you're familiar with Orwell, and the meaning of Orwellian.

Did my comment read to you like I didn't know what real life societies he was writing about? I explicitly described how they fit into my point exactly in order to make people not reply with comments like yours.

Maybe you are just bad at writing clearly.
I see now that my failure was in assuming an educated reader. And you're right that having an accurate model of the reader is indeed important for clear communication.