Was George Orwell a freeper?

[Boojatta]

Poll question: Was George Orwell a freeper?

[grasswire]

1. it appears that Orwell was an optimist (eom)

[SteppingRazor]

2. Not even remotely.

Orwell was stridently anti-authoritarian, and would have opposed the right-wing authoritarianism of the modern Republican Party as much as he opposed Soviet-style communism.

[Boojatta]

3. If he was anti-authoritarian, then why didn't he love Stalin?

[amdezurik]

7. that is a really stupid question

Stalin was very authoritarian. Why do you think he took that name?

[tom_paine]

18. Ha ha. I get it. Funny.

I like this game.

If we assume that Orwell was a Freeper, we must then also assume that:

Jesus Christ was a Satanist.
Incitatus the horse made a wonderful Senator.
Mother Theresa was a mass murderer.
The Pope is Jewish.
FDR was a Neocon.
The original Tom Paine was conservative.

Funny.

[chicagoexpat]

4. Vy all accounts, Orwell was a prick on a personal level; Freepers ar pricks; ergo...

& DU'ers locking arms w/ Freepers are certainly pricks

[asteroid2003QQ47]

5. None

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia!"
--Winston Smith, "Nineteen Eighty Four"

[amdezurik]

6. iI realize that supporting your words

is beyond you, but why would you ask this? Mr orwell wrote a book WARNING about "freeperism" and no more then John Wayne playing soldiers or cowboys made him anything but a draft dodger, writing a book against something does not make you into that something, any more then playing a part makes you into that character.

[Dr Fate]

11. Some freeper types claim was soley a conservative...

...because he obviously opposed authoritarian communism and supposedly favored private gun ownership in England...

You are right-they forget that he would be appalled by the "1984" tactics in play as we speak...

[Dr Fate]

8. I read that he was anti-authoritarian, but favored many socialist policies.

Of course we all know he would have been opposed to a facist as well as a socialist or communist dictatorship.

I also read that he was for private gun owner ship.

Freeper? hell no- but I suppose Liberals as well as some conservatives could claim he shared some beliefs with them.

[ThomWV]

9. You got it exactly backward

Freeper? You gotta be kidding, right? Every word he wrote (with the possible exception of his essay on politics and the English language) was anti-authoritarian.

[Boojatta]

12. It could be worse. I could have written something that is "not even wrong."

[EFerrari]

10. He spent most of his life critiquing authoritarians.

:wtf:

[liberal texan]

13. Orwell was a socialist.

so no

[Naturyl]

14. When can someone finally say it? (n/t)

[Oilwellian]

15. Uh, no, he wasn't. n/t

[Boojatta]

16. Look who's talking!

;)

[Hannah Bell]

17. tin-foil hatter, conspiracy theorist :>)

[jeff30997]

19. George Orwell was Orwellian !!!

Argh! Heeee! Oogle! :silly:

[Orrex]

20. His War of the Worlds hoax was the other best hoax ever!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. Was Boojatta a George Orwell?

Probably.

[Boojatta]

22. There is only one George Orwell.

And it isn't Boojatta.

[Marr]

23. Is this some kind of new internet-based performance art?

Because I've got that bewildered feeling I get when I see performance art.

[tama]

25. No,

I'M GEORGE ORWELL!

[tama]

26. A pic

[tama]

24. Non-person

just like me.