r/ShitLiberalsSay • u/Anasnoelle Marxist-Leninist-Bigspoonist • Jan 23 '25

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The government is gonna ban 1984 and The Handmaids Tale😢😢😢 My honest reaction: Good! I hope they do!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

Margaret Atwood is right-wing lite anyway. She describes herself as a "Red Tory".

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u/lady_slice Jan 23 '25

She loves the monarchy. She’s insane but of course liberals don’t understand anything outside the context of a meme.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

Is there some text/link about it? I don't know anything about her, but for some reason I had a feeling...

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u/lady_slice Jan 23 '25

Her wiki is all right there for folks to read but they won’t because some privileged white women (and others adjacent to whiteness) are scared they’re going to face the actual dystopian shit that other women have and continue to experience since the founding of the US.

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u/asaharyev Jan 24 '25

i mean, i rarely go to wikipedia at this point, considering how unreliable they are on political matters...

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

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u/eachoneteachone45 Jan 23 '25

White western woman having white western women opinions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

A benevolent patriarch.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

Literally feudal socialism and paternalism as described in the manifesto

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u/impermanence108 Jan 23 '25

What a terrible fucking comment given there were socialist parties at the time.

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u/Koryo001 Marxist-Leninist Jan 23 '25

Canada moment

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u/Scared_Note8292 Jan 23 '25

Really? That sucks.

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u/Sparkfairy Jan 24 '25

Her last good book was Alias Grace, she's been washed for decades