Chris Jakobsen
Eric Alper
Karma Sahne - R.I.P @natenom@EricAlper Except is was never banned in the US AFAIK, just regionally challenged (esp. in schools) or removed from some public libraries.
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screenshot of a post with two replies.
The post is a photograph taken inside a bookstore or library. We see the top of a book into which a card for Freedom To Read Week has been stuck explaining that the book has been banned in the USSR, China, and USA.
Banned in USSR for being anti-communist.
Banned in US for being pro-communist.
Reply1: The book is 1984, which is neither. It's anti-authoritarian, which tells you a lot.
R2: Sometimes I wish the joke didn't write itself.
improper ideologue@EricAlper I didn’t understand 1984 until I read “Homage to Catalonia,” Orwell’s non-fiction about fighting in a Marxist militia during the Spanish Civil War.
CohninaScreenshot probably from a social network.
3:people contribute to the conversation.
Person 1 posts a photo from a library. There is a "Freedom to read week" according to the card inside a book. Also noted on it: This book has been
(unsorted list) challenged, seized, banned, burned
in: (handwritten comment) USSR, China, USA
* Banned in USSR for being Anti-Communist
* Banned in US for being Pro-Communist
(1/2)
Person 2: This book is 1984, which is neither. It's anti-authoritarian, which tells you a lot.
Person 3: Ya know, sometimes I wish the joke *didn't* write itself.
(2/2)