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From the Boy's Own Paper: "The Pygmy twisted round in his grasp, and with the fierceness of a she-wolf suddenly buried his teeth deep into the flesh of Crouch's arm." Gilson's serial 'In the Power of the Pygmies.
The idea here is to consider things that have been banned or that are likely to be banned in the near future.
It is not my intention to cause any upset for "minorities" or for "majorities". And there is no intention here to be racialist: racial differences are addressed in an honest manner.
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The idea here is to consider things that have been banned or that are likely to be banned in the near future.
It is not my intention to cause any upset for "minorities" or for "majorities". And there is no intention here to be racialist: racial differences are addressed in an honest manner.
George Orwell, the great English "socialist patriot" (an expression which was not then a contradiction in terms) wrote in 1941, "England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at everything from horse racing to suet pudding. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God Save the King than of stealing from the poor box."
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