the problem with hexbear is the same handful of users that have made it their hobby to complain incessantly about hexbear all over the fediverse
honeynut
joined 1 year ago
couldn’t help to find Hitler unlikable
I think you meant, to quote Orwell himself:
I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler.
More on the list in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%27s_list
There is a notable and obvious overlap in Orwell’s notebook between many of 1940s London’s prominent gay, Jewish and anti-colonial public figures and the accused “cryptos.” Orwell’s bigoted commentaries fill his suspects notebook. Jews are clearly labeled (“Polish Jew,” “English Jew,” “Jewess”) whilst others were mislabeled (“Charlie Chaplin — Jewish?”). The African-American bass singer and future civil rights activist Paul Robeson finds himself in Orwell’s list with the note “very anti-white,” whilst the half-Jewish poet Stephen Spender is damned as a “sentimental sympathiser… tendency towards homosexuality.”
It'll always be funny that the dude who wrote something like 1984 was such an eager proto-McCarthyite snitch for the propaganda unit of the British Foreign Office.
yes, hexbear is currently doing a donation drive to support and evacuate people in Gaza