“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.” — George Orwell, 1984
BBC Caught in Its Own Web of Newspeak: When Saying ‘Woman’ Becomes a Thoughtcrime
What does a woman need to know to understand she is a woman? According to the BBC, apparently nothing at all. Because if you know what a woman is, if you dare to say that women are adult human females, you have committed the cardinal sin of our age: you have noticed reality.
When newsreader Martine Croxall changed the phrase “pregnant people” to “women” during a live broadcast, she wasn’t editorialising. She was stating a biological fact so obvious that every civilisation in human history has understood it without needing a committee meeting. Yet the BBC found her guilty of expressing “a controversial view about trans people.” Twenty complaints were upheld. Her crime? A facial expression that suggested she knew what a woman was.
George Orwell warned us about this in 1984: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” The BBC, our publicly funded broadcaster, has become precisely the institution Orwell feared.
What does a woman need to know to understand she is a woman? According to the BBC, apparently nothing at all. Because if you know what a woman is, if you dare to say that women are adult human females, you have committed the cardinal sin of our age: you have noticed reality.
When newsreader Martine Croxall changed the phrase “pregnant people” to “women” during a live broadcast, she wasn’t editorialising. She was stating a biological fact so obvious that every civilisation in human history has understood it without needing a committee meeting. Yet the BBC found her guilty of expressing “a controversial view about trans people.” Twenty complaints were upheld. Her crime? A facial expression that suggested she knew what a woman was.
George Orwell warned us about this in 1984: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” The BBC, our publicly funded broadcaster, has become precisely the institution Orwell feared.
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I am smiling at this and last night's going out. Barry might think they are a wind up of him, but they have been in the queue for over a week and just go out in order.
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