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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Huh... we're seeing anglocentric capitalists trying to rebrand liberalism somehow compatible with right wing. Always some liberty-hindering agenda gets newspeak marketing campaigns, "economic liberalism", "neoliberalism", "classic liberalism"

"war is peace," "freedom is slavery," and "ignorance is strength"...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Liberalism has always been right wing, and Orwell is the lowest garbage anyone can reference in political analysis. You didn't even do it correctly, assuming that "newspeak" just means a new euphemistic way of referring to something, and this is the way it's commonly used by people who didn't actually read 1984 (not to say that they should), but really it's a language based around contractions, abbreviations, and simplifications meant to make communication more efficient, and also (somehow) make people lose the ability to think independently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I doubleplus-see what you did there