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>browsing SlateStarCodex, a site by a liberal american blogger
>he links to the below site and says "Does anyone else thinkthe UK #knifefree campaigncomes off as a little creepy and Orwellian?"
>go on the website and see nothing strange

Fuck, I live in the UK. Have I been conditioned? Does this look Orwellian?

https://www.knifefree.co.uk/real-stories/

>> No.10971299

not literature you fucking bong

>> No.10971303

>>10971297
The particular page you linked doesn't seem Orwellian to me. It looks like a typical campaign to reduce youth crime that probably won't work.

>> No.10971309

>>10971297
>SlateStarCodex
Isn't this the site founded by that euphoric Jew who wrote that awful Harry Potter fanfic?

>> No.10971313

>>10971297
It's not Orwellian, but it's fucking dumb

>> No.10971319

When I can't carry my BLADES round in public the government has gone too far!
No, I don't think it's orwellian- with the same logic any governmental restriction becomes 'orwellian'. I imagine the Orwellian tag comes from generic slippery slope logic. (I'm also British btw)

>> No.10971411

>>10971309
Scott Alexander sounds real jewish to me. Derp.

>> No.10971535

>>10971319
A government that's so emasculated it can't even bear to see its own citizens lugging around a knife isn't worth listening or obeying to tbqh.

>> No.10971545

>>10971411

He is Jewish though.

>> No.10971564

>>10971297
Yeah, I often wonder how Britfags feel about living in a country where you go to jail for being rude on twitter. Does it bother them at all or do they think it's normal?

>> No.10971600

>>10971297
>https://www.knifefree.co.uk/real-stories/
the only orwellian aspect is that those videos are played by actors similar to how Eric Blair likes to call himself Orwell

>> No.10971627

>>10971309
No that's lesswrong

>> No.10971651

>>10971319
I think the Orwellian aspect comes from how broad the restrictions become to the point that anyone can be a criminal for things that used to be commonplace and harmless. Everyone on this board has probably committed a felony in some way or another before, possibly without even knowing it. Unless you trust the police and courts to exercise perfect discretion over harmless infractions then perhaps the laws are too restrictive.

>> No.10971671

>The consequences and dangers of knife carrying are real
None of those are consequences of carrying a knife; do they have some stories where a knife malfunctioned in their pocket and they cut themself? Anyway, there's more dangerous things out there. Black people commit more crime than knives.

>> No.10971713

>>10971309
No, he came from that site and agrees with a lot of the stuff on it but he's not as euphoric or neckbeardy.

>> No.10971728

Anyone else read Alexander's webnovel? I read through it last week, and genuinely thought it was pretty good.

>> No.10971746

>>10971728
What's its name?

>> No.10971756

>>10971746
Unsong. It's basically a kabbalah-themed scifi novel.

>> No.10971765

>>10971297
>liberal blog
>talking about things being Orwellian
anyone else see the problem with this?

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>>10971756
pic related?

>> No.10971771

>>10971765
Not really, no.

>> No.10971778

>>10971771
liberals love censoring things

>> No.10971779

>>10971769
I don't understand this picture at all. Also, even if we want to take the symbolism in Eva seriously for some reason, it's more Christian than it is Jewish

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10971786

Bit arrogant there, Sonny.

>> No.10971792

>>10971778
That's a broad and largely inaccurate generalization, but even if you were correct, none of the articles on his blog have ever been in favor of censorship

>> No.10971812

>>10971792
You're an avid reader, huh?

>> No.10971828

>>10971812
Yeah, his analysis is often pretty interesting. I'm not an expert in neuroscience, and he does a decent job of simplifying it to my level.

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10971851

>Orwellian

>> No.10971861
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10971861

>Orwellian

>> No.10971864

>>10971765
Orwell was a socialist.

>> No.10971875

>>10971864
stop defending your gay socioeconomic system, it will never work

>> No.10971877

>>10971851
>>10971861
I, too, despise linguistic shortcuts

>> No.10971908

>>10971297
>Does this look Orwellian?
no, this looks crap

>> No.10971913

>>10971297
You're a little behind, they're already doing background checks for teaspoons:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217504/Are-old-spoon-Woman-asked-ID-buying-teaspoons-Tesco.html

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>>10971875
Stop defending your illiterateness, it will never do good

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>>10971919
its true though, the longer socialism goes on the longer mudshits will rape the motherland

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>>10971765
>>10971778
>being this American

>> No.10971938

>>10971925
the longer your stupidity goes on, the longer your bullshit will rape your neurons

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>>10971938
your argument is really great, if im so retarded and you love socialism so much can u pretty please send me half of your personal belongings

>> No.10972526

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