It was banned in both the Soviet Union and the US.
In the Soviet Union it was banned for being anti-communist.
In the US it was banned for being communist.
It comes down to framing. You put Animal Farm (unapologetically anti-Soviet Union) and 1984 (more broadly anti-authoritarian) on the required reading list for high schools. You haven’t provided any education around Marxist theory anywhere in the curriculum besides “communism bad”. That lets you transfer the idea that the USSR is representative of all leftist thought, and these books are about the USSR. Breeze over all the stuff in 1984 that points to any kind of leftist theory–which Orwell helps with because he expects people to get bored and skip that whole bit–and boom, Orwell becomes an anti-leftist icon.
If Homage to Catalonia were also added to the curriculum, this whole farce would be torn down.
The US school system does not allow for truth to be more complicated than “COMMUNISTS BAD, AMERICA GOOD”.
Anything more complex and nuanced than that and the poor kids would get an aneurysm from to much thinking
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Because when you tell a people that a piece of media is too evil and vile to ever be looked at, that only makes them wanna read it more. I guruan-fucking-tee more people have read 1984 now that they’re not allowed to!
As others have told you, yes. And the worst part is the justification is usually because Winston and Julia have sex. And it’s not titillating. Orwell was not exactly writing erotica.
Is 1984 banned? That was mandatory reading…
It and Fahrenheit 451 are, ironically, among some of the most banned books in the US.
It was banned in both the Soviet Union and the US.
In the Soviet Union it was banned for being anti-communist.
In the US it was banned for being communist.
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Nah he was just anti-authoritarian and both the US and USSR governments saw themselves reflected in the text
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It comes down to framing. You put Animal Farm (unapologetically anti-Soviet Union) and 1984 (more broadly anti-authoritarian) on the required reading list for high schools. You haven’t provided any education around Marxist theory anywhere in the curriculum besides “communism bad”. That lets you transfer the idea that the USSR is representative of all leftist thought, and these books are about the USSR. Breeze over all the stuff in 1984 that points to any kind of leftist theory–which Orwell helps with because he expects people to get bored and skip that whole bit–and boom, Orwell becomes an anti-leftist icon.
If Homage to Catalonia were also added to the curriculum, this whole farce would be torn down.
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The US school system does not allow for truth to be more complicated than “COMMUNISTS BAD, AMERICA GOOD”.
Anything more complex and nuanced than that and the poor kids would get an aneurysm from to much thinking
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Footloose amusingly enough as well.
Is it because the title track has the line “kick off your Sunday shoes?”
Presumably because it’s about a real thing that made them scared in the 1800s and they’re scared they’ll be scared of being scared.
That’s funny, they were both required reading where I am in the U.S.
Yes, and I’m glad that it is.
record skip, everyone stares at HawlSera awkwardly, guns are cocked and pointed at her
Because when you tell a people that a piece of media is too evil and vile to ever be looked at, that only makes them wanna read it more. I guruan-fucking-tee more people have read 1984 now that they’re not allowed to!
Points for self awareness, and for Streisand effect.
As others have told you, yes. And the worst part is the justification is usually because Winston and Julia have sex. And it’s not titillating. Orwell was not exactly writing erotica.
yes they are literally banned at most schools in my state. Along with books that have LGBT charicters in them