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Topic: Re:How embarrassing
Posted by: Graham Thorpe
Date/Time: 20/07/21 00:05:00

What an inept meeting - who was that dreadful chairperson? I have alluded in this forum in the past to Orwellain Newspeak - do the council think that banning words that make them look bad will remove individual's rights to hold them to account? Are they aware this is behaviour carried out by the worst totalitarian regimes of the 20th century?
An except from the Wikipedia page on Newspeak - "Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy."


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
How embarrassing19/07/21 17:12:00 Mike Paterson
   Re:How embarrassing20/07/21 00:05:00 Graham Thorpe
      Re:Re:How embarrassing20/07/21 07:01:00 Nicholas Beard
      Re:Re:How embarrassing20/07/21 08:18:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:How embarrassing21/07/21 09:14:00 John Bradley
      Re:Re:How embarrassing21/07/21 10:20:00 Paul Fisher
         Re:Re:Re:How embarrassing21/07/21 19:01:00 Raymond Havelock
            Re:Re:Re:Re:How embarrassing22/07/21 13:03:00 Barbara Stryjak
            Re:Re:Re:Re:How embarrassing23/07/21 12:54:00 Adam Beamish
         Re:Re:Re:How embarrassing - Loved your comment :-)31/07/21 10:30:00 M H Mason
   Re:How embarrassing24/07/21 17:11:00 John Bradley
      Re:Re:How embarrassing24/07/21 19:19:00 Nicholas Beard
         Re:Re:Re:How embarrassing30/07/21 12:35:00 Sue Rowe
         Re:Re:Re:How embarrassing31/07/21 10:39:00 Mike Paterson
   Re:How embarrassing31/07/21 10:38:00 M H Mason

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