“Starting a Go Fund Me to buy conservatives some Orwell books,” wrote son just described having to clean his room as positively ‘Chorewellian,’” tweeted TV writer Gennefer Gross. “As we all remember, Orwell's ‘1984’ is about an old man who gets banned from a bird-themed social media site after regularly encouraging violence,” tweeted the progressive think tank Gravel Institute. "Tell me you didn't read Nineteen Eighty-Four without telling me you haven't read Nineteen Eighty-Four," Boeber's tweet. “This could not be more Orwellian,” he tweeted in a statement.Ĭheeky Twitter users have been quick to criticize the invocation of Orwell from people who, like many of us, probably haven’t dusted off a copy of “1984” since high school.
Josh Hawley, R-Mo., lost his book deal with Simon & Schuster due to his his widely perceived role in helping incite the riot, he had some words for what he called the “woke mob” at his would-be publisher. 'Carnival barkers': Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert snubbed by GOP women’s fundraising group It died with big tech and what’s left is only there for a chosen few.” “Free-speech no longer exists in America.
“We are living Orwell’s 1984,” he tweeted. In January, when Twitter permanently suspended then-President Donald Trump’s Twitter account following the Capitol Hill riot, his son Donald Trump Jr. “The only thing Orwell got wrong was the year,” she wrote.Ĭhances are, you’ve seen Orwell’s name thrown around a lot in the past year on social media, either by conservatives invoking his name with sincerity or by liberals poking fun at conservatives for its misuse. Lauren Boebert, the QAnon-friendly conservative firebrand and vocal gun-rights advocate trended on Twitter after invoking the English author. The first-term congressman said in an oddly worded tweet on Tuesday "1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day," referencing the author’s oft-cited dystopian classic “1984.” Cawthorn was met with criticism in both citing the book as a "fiction novel," all novels are fiction, and questioning if the 25-year-old congressman has ever read the book. Madison Cawthorn to the list of American politicians who need a George Orwell refresher. Hawley: Election objections should be heardĪdd Republican Rep.