Social media users compared the hate hoax against the Covington Catholic high school kids to a passage about “facecrime” from George Orwell’s landmark novel 1984 this week.
The Covington Catholic incident, where a pro-Trump student faced media wrath for smirking at a Native American man who was harassing him, was compared by social media users to a passage about “facecrime” from George Orwell’s dystopian book 1984, which reads: “to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called.”
Actual 1984 quote! pic.twitter.com/qM2uP2S7KV
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 22, 2019
"..to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: Facecrime, it was called." #GeorgeOrwell 1984 https://t.co/06PRfVFABc
— John Kass (@John_Kass) January 23, 2019
"To wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called" — George Orwell, 1984 #VerifiedBullies #CovingtonBoys #StandWithCovington
— Ali Alexander (@ali) January 22, 2019
In Orwell’s totalitarian dystopia 1984, the authorities punish people for their facial expressions: “facecrime.” pic.twitter.com/cFvUNnk7sM
— John Durant (@johndurant) January 22, 2019
Let's face it, #NickSandmann committed a #facecrime. pic.twitter.com/AXcGIeskwX
— Partisangirl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) January 23, 2019
Nick Sandmann, media-lynched for a “smirk.”
From Orwell’s 1984:
“to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.”
— Thomas D. Williams (@tdwilliamsrome) January 23, 2019
"To wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called." —George Orwell, 1984
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) January 23, 2019
One Ivy League professor accused the student of having “the smiling face of Whiteness,” while television host Reza Aslan asked his Twitter followers, “Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?”
NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie also remarked, “There is something aggressive about standing there, standing your ground.”
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