People who use the word “reactionary” in this context may as well just say “I’m a communist.”
Right-wing commentators often use the book’s authoritarian “Big Brother” government as a comparison point in their criticism, likening the fictional surveillance state to real-world equality movements.
This person is either brain dead or deliberately misrepresenting the point. Perhaps both.
Later that month, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad reportedly told employees during a private Q&A that Rowling was “entitled to express her personal opinion on social media.”
Well how fucking dare they! What was that about 1984 again?
People who use the word “reactionary” in this context may as well just say “I’m a communist.”
This person is either brain dead or deliberately misrepresenting the point. Perhaps both.
Well how fucking dare they! What was that about 1984 again?
"You're a reactionary!"
"... But reacting to what?"
Like "acting out," "reactionary" is one of those negative terms that carefully avoids mentioning what the speaker considers bad.
They are false charges, mental pollutants injected into English by malefactors speaking in bad faith.
just like "Nazis burned books!" never talks about exactly what books were burned, just how bad it was because Nazis did it.