Re:George Orwell would have voted to leave the European Union
by notahacker on Saturday July 16, 2016 @10:29AM
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The article offers a secondary argument that Orwell didn't mind disagreeing with other radical leftists, but again that's just as easily read the other way: left-wing cheerleaders for Brexit like George Galloway are the modern embodiment of pretty much everything Orwell hated about radical left wing politics in Britain...
The "[Dead person] would have voted [x] on the EU" is the most facile form of political argumentation we've had the misfortune to experience over the past few month, and this is one of the weakest examples of this kind of argument I've seen. And if you forced me at gunpoint to construct an argument from the authority of a long dead person on Brexit, I'd probably pick someone whose politics were a little more consistent, considerably more pragmatic and a lot less a product of the very specific political climates of the era he found himself in than Orwell.
The "[Dead person] would have voted [x] on the EU" is the most facile form of political argumentation we've had the misfortune to experience over the past few month, and this is one of the weakest examples of this kind of argument I've seen. And if you forced me at gunpoint to construct an argument from the authority of a long dead person on Brexit, I'd probably pick someone whose politics were a little more consistent, considerably more pragmatic and a lot less a product of the very specific political climates of the era he found himself in than Orwell.