[sudo-discuss] Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary

[Torrie Fischer]

In fact, the point of this art piece is to get people to realize how pants-on-
head stupid it is to call entire groups of people terrorists.

:)

On Friday, November 27, 2015 11:58:43 PM Jake wrote:
> 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,
> > 
> > With good intention I downloaded and installed the Chrome extension so
> > that I could check it out and possible give you some feedback.
> > 
> > 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".
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > I deleted the extension.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Torrie Fischer <tdfischer at hackerbots.net> 
wrote:
> >       Hi, Sudo Room.
> >       
> >       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.
> >       
> >       So here's a chrome extension I threw together that helpfully
> >       translates the
> >       web using The Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary:
> >       
> >       https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-unabridged-newspeak-d/
> >       fiillclgkojaejeldlncpijkdmajhcph
> >       
> >       Feedback and additions are welcome. Please share :)
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