> ... state-sponsored spin of this kind is now often described as ‘ #Orwellian ’. The word is, of course, generally used in relation to science-fictional depictions of future dystopias. But #GeorgeOrwell, as the son of an opium agent and an imperial police officer himself, would have been in a good position to know that the #dystopia that he had projected into the future had many analogues in #ColonialPractices as well.

#Orwell in #SmokeAndAshes
projects #WhitesUnderColonialism