Yesterday we posted a piece titled New ‘1984’ Foreword Includes Warning About ‘Problematic’ Characters. Our thanks to cp for posting these comments in reply:

“1984 was published in 1949. The Wikipedia entry on ethnic GB population of the time states this: “In 1950, there were probably fewer than 20,000 non-white residents in Britain, almost all of them born overseas.” Thus, it is highly unlikely that Orwell would have felt any fundamental oversight in not introducing topics which spoke to race and ethnicity as part of the fabric of his novel.

As for the ‘misogyny’ which Ms Perkins-Waldez speaks of, the most famous line is actually an acute observation. “It was always the women, and, above all, the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies, and the nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

This tendency is one of the main reasons that modern society so resembles the dystopian nightmare pictured by Orwell in 1949. Post WW2, women were leaving behind the domestic sphere, making incursion into business and commerce, politics and jurisprudence, bringing female values with them, and finding fault in men for being there.

Now, as in the novel, we all must pretend, pretend, pretend, toe the Party line, follow the Narrative, or risk cancellation. Perhaps be banged up for a time under the watchful eye of Two-Tier Keir, less of a Big Brother than a Big Girl’s Blouse, useful idiot to his feminist Cabinet. We must listen to the endless complaints of Ms Perkins-Waldez and her ilk, determined to see the world through a lens of irrelevance while they attempt to sully the reputation of works which they barely understand.”

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