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Orwell would loathe today’s left

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George Orwell's 1941 essay, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, slammed the bourgeois intellectuals of his day for their intolerance and insularity.

Both the bourgeois intelligentsia and the Blimps are united in their mutual disdain for the working class.

Today ’s middle-class left retreats into the narrow, intellectually conformist worlds of academia and publishing.

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49

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41

Neutral language

31

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

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likely offensive

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possibly hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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