[sudo-discuss] Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary

[Jake]

Daniel,

it's not supposed to be taken literally - rather it's a direct reference 
to a well-known book called 1984 written by George Orwell.

please read the wikipedia page to get a better idea of what the book is 
about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

and here is a text copy of the book if you want to read it.

http://spaz.org/~jake/1984.txt

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, danarauz at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Torrie,
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> With good intention I downloaded and installed the Chrome extension so that I could check it out and possible give you some feedback.
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> Well, when reading the extension information I was quickly shocked that the example shown says that the word "Terrorists" gets replaced by the phrase "The Nation of
> Eastasia".
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> That is a big turn off for me, because at least in my mind it implies that all people in East Asia are terrorists. And that is a very awful thing to say or support.
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> I deleted the extension.
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> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Torrie Fischer <tdfischer at hackerbots.net> wrote:
>       Hi, Sudo Room.
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>       I've been super frustrated at world events lately, what with the US government
>       labelling everyone a terrorist, the NSA being so pervasive, and white
>       protestant males excusing other white protestant males for shooting up planned
>       parenthoods and such.
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>       So here's a chrome extension I threw together that helpfully translates the
>       web using The Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary:
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>       https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-unabridged-newspeak-d/fiillclgkojaejeldlncpijkdmajhcph
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>       Feedback and additions are welcome. Please share :)
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