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George Orwell is stealing my work

This is fascinating and goes to show how the internet, when it works up a head of steam, can take over…We already know that dead people can vote, but here’s a new one for you: they can plagiarize, too. A few years ago, I read a “George Orwell” quotation that had begun to gain some currency: “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” The problem is, Orwell never said it. And I ought to know. Because I said it. (Or, to be precise, I wrote it.)

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Random Note #186,843 — The Vote Of The Uneducated White Man

It was a fanfare for the common man but in all the dissembling, spin and statistical breakdown over the US election there’s been a great deal made of the so called, uneducated white voter. It is this simple postmodern, pigeonholing of the white man that reinforces the view of a condescending, snobbish elitism at work, which triggered the blowback at the ballot box in the first place and is typical of the self loathing, delusional mush and guff being drip fed into the malleable minds of the naive and gullible.

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Never a truer word written: Trumpism is not a passing fad. Ignore the ‘forgotten men and women’ at your peril — Miranda Devine, Sunday Telegraph

Even in Australia friends avoided the topic for fear of social ostracism. Only in the remaining oasis of democracy, the polling booth, did the silenced majority feel free to express themselves. That’s what you get when you silence dissent with political correctness, when you ban speakers from university campuses, make social status dependent on virtue-­signalling, traduce religious conservatives, and stack your media organisations with groupthink elitists

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