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Statement 1 below is from Orwell’s 1984. Statement 2 concerns a task force commissioned by the Washington, D.C., government that has recommended renaming, relocating or adding context to dozens of monuments, schools, parks and buildings.

The motives a eerily familiar

1 — “…Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right..”

2 — “…A task force commissioned by the Washington, D.C., government has recommended renaming, relocating or adding context to dozens of monuments, schools, parks and buildings. Among the targets are the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial. For the multiple statues and monuments on federal land, the committee advises Mayor Bowser to ask the federal government to “remove, relocate, or contextualize” landmarks such as the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial and the statue of Christopher Columbus outside Union Station…”