North Korea, 1984

Hitchens justifying the comparison of North Korea to George Orwell's 1984.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• george orwell
• 1984
• north korea
• christopher hitchens
• god is not great
• how religion poisons everything
• prague
• journalist cliche
• communism
• franz kafka

[mindgrapes]

So was Hitchens back in the day. Doesn't mean either likes fascism

[Ninjikayatsu]

You're an idiot. George Orwell was a socialist, moron.

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

@lyrx2myears

Me = Respects all people, and thinks freedom of thought is very important

Hitchens = spent his life going "ARGLE BARGLE DA RELIJUS PEPLE R SO EVULLL"

Who's the asshole again?

[lyrx2myears]

@Skinnyoompalumpa no he is not an asshole, you're confusing him with yourself.

[Mr000012]

@Skinnyoompalumpa He did not, and would never call someone 'retarded'. Such a pathetically offensive slur is beneath any sensible person

[mixmastermeeks]

@Skinnyoompalumpa But he loved the enlightenment. He loved freedom of speech even if he felt someone what "retarded". My biggest problem with Hitchens was I can't believe at one time he was communist (a trotsky follower I believe). After seeing what that system did to people at least he changed his mind.

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

@mixmastermeeks

I can't buy that. He spent his later life calling people who disagreed with him retarded.

He was every bad attribute an atheist can have (except for the communism) rolled into one.

[mixmastermeeks]

@Skinnyoompalumpa No Hitchens was (sadly was now) a humanist. He loved people. And he was not so worried about being right as he was about human's conditions. He realized after much travel that socialism can't produce what it says it can produce. And in fact capitalism produces a greater portion of what socialists wish to produce.

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

So Hitchens was once a cool guy?

Sad he is such an asshole now.

[ThePurelogic]

@Ninjikayatsu *democratic socialist

This is completely different from what the current view of a socialist is. A democratic socialist, in the days of Orwell, meant essentially what a Libertarian means today. If you think that Orwell would ever favor a modern socialist view, then you are wrong, for a modern socialist, is an infant communist.

[LuisManuelLealDias]

@MrTheBeast yeah search it it's a good point too