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Tag: American Democracy

That Was the Democracy That Was

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Originally posted on Twitter by Winston Smith …

too meta?

Posted on 02/05/2020 by MikePosted in Critical Thinking, Literature, PoliticsTagged 1984, American Democracy, George Orwell, Winston Smith. Leave a comment

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“The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their “vital interests” are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the “sanctity” of human life, or the “conscience” of the civilized world.” — James Baldwin

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