The rape allegations were definitely new to me, I need to see if I can find more sources besides this daily mail debate. Especially as there is little sourcing.
Next, the list is supposedly about Stalinists, which he was, understandably, opposes to. Per Definition they are compatriots, people from the same country, but to me compatriots also implied same political affiliations.
Moving on, him being a Burmese Police Officer was something I probably heard at some point but probably forgot. I’ll do some deeper digging into this as well, as there was little mention besides it affecting his opinion of the Empire negatively.
Now, speaking of Animal Farm. All of the mentioned points are not applied to Orwell, but the CIA. And funnily enough, I have never seen the animated version, I only read the book. Additionally, both of these adaptations were done after his death on the 21.01.1950.
Yeah he was actually a pretty big racist, which probably plays into the “was a colonial cop” thing.
Not like, Kipling level racist, and he even has done criticism of Kipling on the topic, but pretty up there. On his snitch list he said things like “anti-white” as his criticisms.
Speaking of which, his list was a list of socialists he consider too Stalinist for recruiting into an anti-Stalin propaganda program. As far as anyone can tell its purpose wasn’t for and wasn’t used to persecute or out anyone, most of the people on the list were publicly socialist.
Plus he was going insane from terminal TB so it’s just straight up not the purity test bullet some people want it to be. Even if it was Animal Farm’s criticisms are still true, including the fact that the pigs turning into basically-humans doesn’t excuse the humans from their own crimes, which was the point that made America states ban it too.
I’d need to look more into that, did saw a comment of his against some of the Burmese people who were supposedly insulting him which was off-color. Though he did seem to try to integrate into at least a Burmese subculture, the Karen/Kayin, supposedly learning their language and speaking relatively fluid.
Tbh, I saw the “anti-white” comment but without knowing anything about who it was directed to (I didn’t dig deeper) it doesn’t hold much merit to me. I will look into the person, though.
The list might’ve inadvertently be used to persecute, but probably due to general McCarthyism. Any “risk” of being a communist was enough for the US.
And absolutely, I find it weird. They can’t discredit the writing so they go for the character of the author. I personally don’t feel they necessarily need to be intertwined. Animal Farm also felt like a poignant parallelism to history with Snowball and Napoleon mirroring Trotsky and Stalin.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5393729/CRAIG-BROWN-George-Orwell-just-dirty-old-man.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list
He was also an imperial cop in British-occupied Burma.
Animal Farm was Cold War agitprop, which the CIA airdropped on eastern Europe and made it into an animated film that you may have seen. The CIA funded the film adaptation of 1984 as well.
The rape allegations were definitely new to me, I need to see if I can find more sources besides this daily mail debate. Especially as there is little sourcing.
Next, the list is supposedly about Stalinists, which he was, understandably, opposes to. Per Definition they are compatriots, people from the same country, but to me compatriots also implied same political affiliations.
Moving on, him being a Burmese Police Officer was something I probably heard at some point but probably forgot. I’ll do some deeper digging into this as well, as there was little mention besides it affecting his opinion of the Empire negatively.
Now, speaking of Animal Farm. All of the mentioned points are not applied to Orwell, but the CIA. And funnily enough, I have never seen the animated version, I only read the book. Additionally, both of these adaptations were done after his death on the 21.01.1950.
Yeah he was actually a pretty big racist, which probably plays into the “was a colonial cop” thing.
Not like, Kipling level racist, and he even has done criticism of Kipling on the topic, but pretty up there. On his snitch list he said things like “anti-white” as his criticisms.
Speaking of which, his list was a list of socialists he consider too Stalinist for recruiting into an anti-Stalin propaganda program. As far as anyone can tell its purpose wasn’t for and wasn’t used to persecute or out anyone, most of the people on the list were publicly socialist.
Plus he was going insane from terminal TB so it’s just straight up not the purity test bullet some people want it to be. Even if it was Animal Farm’s criticisms are still true, including the fact that the pigs turning into basically-humans doesn’t excuse the humans from their own crimes, which was the point that made America states ban it too.
I’d need to look more into that, did saw a comment of his against some of the Burmese people who were supposedly insulting him which was off-color. Though he did seem to try to integrate into at least a Burmese subculture, the Karen/Kayin, supposedly learning their language and speaking relatively fluid.
Tbh, I saw the “anti-white” comment but without knowing anything about who it was directed to (I didn’t dig deeper) it doesn’t hold much merit to me. I will look into the person, though.
The list might’ve inadvertently be used to persecute, but probably due to general McCarthyism. Any “risk” of being a communist was enough for the US.
And absolutely, I find it weird. They can’t discredit the writing so they go for the character of the author. I personally don’t feel they necessarily need to be intertwined. Animal Farm also felt like a poignant parallelism to history with Snowball and Napoleon mirroring Trotsky and Stalin.