{"id":54055,"date":"2020-07-09T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54055"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:48:27","slug":"orwell-cancelled-journalist-says-vile-author-aided-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54055","title":{"rendered":"Orwell Cancelled? Journalist Says \u201cVile\u201d Author Aided Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/07\/08\/orwell-cancelled-journalist-says-vile-author-aided-nazis\/\">Orwell Cancelled? Journalist Says \u201cVile\u201d Author Aided Nazis<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOrwell was a total fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summit.news\/2020\/07\/080720orwell.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OLIVER BUNIC\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Despite being dead for 70 years, George Orwell may become the latest public figure to be cancelled after a left-wing journalist called him a \u201cvile man\u201d who aided the Nazis with his strident criticism of Stalinist Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn addition to being a gov snitch, fraud George Orwell spent WWII demonizing the USSR as it defeated Nazism,\u201d tweeted Ben Norman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the Red Army sacrificed millions fighting Hitler, and as the Nazi regime shoved Jews into gas chambers, Orwell was writing Animal Farm. Vile man,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1280869217429073920&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Forwell-cancelled-journalist-says-vile-author-aided-nazis%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norton followed up by denouncing the 1984 author as a \u201creactionary who hated communists more than fascists\u201d before claiming Orwell \u201cdidn\u2019t actually believe in free speech. He wanted to take away the free speech of communists. Orwell was a total fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Respondents pointed out that criticizing Stalinism, which killed multiple times more people than Nazism, doesn\u2019t make one a fascist enabler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOrwell cancelled. Stop reading Orwell everybody. There is nothing you are allowed to learn from his books. Ben says,\u201d tweeted Ryan McGoverne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1280967361512824845&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Forwell-cancelled-journalist-says-vile-author-aided-nazis%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is my favourite cancellation yet. Top 10 of the last hour anyway,\u201d said Alex Boyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1280969832163430402&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Forwell-cancelled-journalist-says-vile-author-aided-nazis%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norman was also accused of historical inaccuracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo believe this is to be completely ignorant of the history of WWII,\u201d remarked one Twitter user. \u201cStalin was completely fine with everything Hitler was doing up until the Germans invasion of USSR in 1941. Also the Red Army was not alone in defeating the Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-4&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1280903846420721664&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Forwell-cancelled-journalist-says-vile-author-aided-nazis%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair to Norman, he does appear to be a supporter of free speech and an opponent of deplatforming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, this once again underscores how \u201ccancel culture\u201d is not merely just pushback on opinions considered to be \u201coffensive\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orwell died in 1950 and his legacy as an icon of anti-authoritarianism has held firm over the last 70 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orwell Cancelled? Journalist Says \u201cVile\u201d Author Aided Nazis \u201cOrwell was a total fraud.\u201d OLIVER BUNIC\/Getty Images Despite being dead for 70 years, George Orwell may become the latest public figure to be cancelled after a left-wing journalist called him a \u201cvile man\u201d who aided the Nazis with his strident criticism of Stalinist Russia. Yes, really. 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