• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    It sounds like we’re talking cross purposes now. I don’t know what children are reading Orwell. Not like in the comic, I imagine. For that matter, I hope most children are not, in fact, seeing videos of cats being killed.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Kids are seeing a hell of a lot more violent videos than they are reading Orwell. That was even true when I was a kid in the 80s. I saw every Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th movie that came out while I was in elementary school.

      Amazingly, it didn’t leave me horribly scarred.