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“[The Newspeak word blackwhite] means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past […][5] (George Orwell, 1984)”
― Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
― Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
“Not least, it was an expression of psychologically driven resentment towards commonly admired objects of beauty, as the attackers themselves admitted. As much of the aggression can be ascribed to animosity towards uneven distribution of beauty and grace as it can be towards unequal distribution of rights. In statements of attackers and their supporters, there is palpable envy towards images of ageless perfection.”
― Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
― Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
“Feminist admirers of direct action often overlook Mary Richardson’s later public life. After participating in bombing and arson campaigns in support of suffragism, Richardson became a very senior member of the British Union of Fascists,[14] a path that other Suffragettes followed.”
― Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
― Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
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