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Facecrime --George Orwell's 1984 Prediction Comes True

Remember the young man, Sandmann, who was accused of smirking at the Phillips, the drumming Indian?  Sandmann stated he simply was smiling so as not to be confrontational.

George Orwell, author of 1984, was a socialist. However, he was blessed/cursed with the need to tell the truth.

"Facecrime, a "Newspeak" term coined in George Orwell's novel 1984, is the crime of exhibiting an improper facial expression. For example, to look incredulous when a state victory was announced.

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, 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."\

TRUTH -- THE NEW HATE SPEECH!

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