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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
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A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
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CW: uspol, truthiness, violence, SA
_loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup [3]
"And *you* all know *people* and *friends of yours* that...that happened and so *you* can be any...anything *you* want but *you* want to have safety in the _streets_. *You'll* want to be able to leave _your apartment_ or _your house_ _where *you* live_... and feel safe and go into a _store_ to buy a newspaper or buy something... and *you* don't have that _now_." -- DT
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CW: uspol, truthiness, mnemonics, ableism
more _loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup
"The _capital city_ has been overtaken by violent *gangs* and bloodthirsty *criminals*, roving *mobs* of wild *youth*, drugged out *maniacs* and *homeless people*, and *we're* not gonna let it happen anymore -- *we're* not gonna take it. Under the authorities invested in *me* as the *President* of the _United States_ [...]"
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Please help me find examples of truthiness lacking _loci_ or *identity* mnemonics.
As an example of truthiness, consider this response a question about a certain election:
"I think that *Donald Trump and I* have both raised a number of issues with the _2020 election_, but *we're* focused on the _future_. *I* think there's an obsession _here_ with focusing on 2020 — *I'm* much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide open _border_" - JD V -
Checking for an empty list in Python - Python Morsels (@treyhunner)
Various methods to check if a list is empty in Python:
➡️ checking the list's length,
➡️ evaluating the list's truthiness
➡️ comparing the list to another empty list#Python #Truthiness #PEP8 #DuckTyping #Programming #PythonProgramming
https://www.pythonmorsels.com/checking-for-an-empty-list-in-python/
