Every time people start sucking Orwell off for Homage to Catalonia I bring this up and they go "bUt tHe InTeRnAtIoNaL BrIgAdEs bEtRaYeD tHe POUM!!!!!1111!!!" Fuck Orwell.
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Orwell was part of an unimportant unit in the war too, they never took part in any major actions, and Orwell himself never fired a shot.
Here's a thread on him btw:
What's so bad about George Orwell?
- He's antisemitic, homophobic, and racist. Specifically, he snitched out Jews, Black people, Homosexuals, and communists to British Intelligence. His list includes him writing:
- 8 variations of “Jewish?” (Charlie Chaplin), “Polish Jew, (Tom Driberg)” “English Jew,” or “Jewess.”
- Paul Robeson - "ROBESON, Paul (US Negro) ...Very anti-white. [Henry] Wallace supporter."
- Paul Robeson wasn't anti-white, just look at the welsh coal miners for whom Robeson Campaigned.
- The testimony of Paul Robeson (one of the people Orwell snitched on), to HUAC (House of Unamerican activities committee) during the red scare.
- Stephen Spender - "Sentimental sympathiser... Tendency towards homosexuality"
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish nationalist poet, and anti-imperialist.
- George Padmore, Trinidadian journalist and anti-imperialist campaigner.
- His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA. There's a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc.
- Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.
- Rainer Shea - Orwells 1984 - Anti-communist propaganda.
- Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years. His short story, Shooting an Elephant, uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people.
- A reddit thread on George Orwell, Thread #2.
The snitching out Paul Robeson is unforgivable IMO.
Here's Robeson's speech to the House of unamerican activities committee, which people like Orwell put him in front of.
Also, if i remember correctly, we wrote two people up specifically outlining that one of them was homosexual, and the other was non-white.
It's always hilarious seeing lifestylist "leftists" champion him, seeing as he was a racist, homophobe, snitch, and liberal.
"what you like Stalin?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! but he criminalized homosexuality!" yeah well, you dognose for Orwell, who personally sold out a homosexual to his liberal state so like, ya know.
"noo he's a leftist tho! It was just the times to be homophobic, anti-semitic, anti-communist, and anti-black during WW2!"
wasn't antisemitism illegal in the ussr? he would have been thrown in a gulag anyway lol