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BigLove 42 points ago +42 / -0

I'll tell you why it's still being taught. I'm a teacher. You were forced to read it because public teachers are deluded enough to believe that they are the resistance and conservatives are Big Brother. So from their perspective, they're teaching students how to resist the Right.

Public education is a crime against humanity.

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killerbunny88 20 points ago +21 / -1

Just like the Handmaid's tale. It was created as a warning against conservatives...

BUT THE LEFT IS THE ONES THAT ARE MASKING US AND TRYING TO FORCIBLY INJECT US AND ARE SILENCING HALF THE POPULATION.

It's absolutely insane.

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PraiseBeToScience 13 points ago +13 / -0

Handmaid's Tale literally begins with the government falsely accusing a political enemy of rape and throwing him to be torn to pieces by the Handmaids.

Guess which scene somehow was absent from the recent movie?

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Gyrfalcon 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just like the Handmaid's tale. It was created as a warning against conservatives...

No! It was a commentary on the takeover of Iran by the Ayatollah Khomeini. That's what the author said when it was first published. Not the leftist, feminist, bullshit she says now.

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killerbunny88 1 point ago +2 / -1

Really?! I didn't know that! I've never read the books only watched the show. That's really interesting and makes a lot more sense.

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JwPATX 13 points ago +13 / -0

They do this with all of the dystopian novels, but I find the mental gymnastics around it the most spectacular regarding 1984, since INGSOC is literally “English Socialism.”...