• ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s honestly uncanny. Not the similarities, but that one of the most commonly assigned books in the public school system is so blatantly disregarded.

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      3 days ago

      Well, most people just remember it as the book where the government watches you, but that’s a very minor part of it. I’m guessing the parts that are remembered/forgotten are on purpose.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        2 days ago

        it also gets entirely framed as being about the dangers of socialism when really it’s about how fascism adopts the imagery of socialism to do what it does