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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 1 Podcast 37 Politics and the Language of Hate
Description: Season 1 Podcast 37, “Politics and the Language of Hate.”In his essay, “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell observed:“I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the ‘natives’, and so in every crisis he has got to do what the ‘natives’ expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit...