Orwellian language
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Founder(s) | George Orwell |
Language chosen to hide rather than expose the truth. |
Orwellian language is language chosen to hide the truth, especially language which inverts the truth.
Etymology
The phrase is a refence to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, a dystopian novel about a totalitarian superstate which uses perpetual war against one or both of its two competing superstates to keep the large majority of its population in poverty and ignorance.
Examples
Page name | Description |
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"Counter-extremism" | |
"Counter-terrorism" | |
"Fact checker" | |
"Free market" | |
"National security" | |
"Non-violent extremism" | |
"Radicalisation" | |
"Security service" | |
Fact checking | |
Integrity Initiative | "An extremely shady covert disinformation and anti-democratic deep state outfit" that was caught promoting Russophobic propaganda and later deleted its website. |