doublethink

• “Expect lots more of this newspeak and doublethink from the Moulton-Kenney Ministry of Love.”

  Shaun Kenney Bombs?

• “Conservatives (read: Republicans) want to be allowed to engage in doublethink on stem cell research, like they do on the more basic tenets of “decency” and “morality.””

  Think Progress » Defending Bush’s Veto, Rove Grossly Distorts Stem Cell Science

• “Outside the Inner Party, doublethink is not even consistent.”

  The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four

• “Outside the Inner party doublethink is merely an extreme form of the phenomenon known to psychologists as cognitive dissonance.”

  The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four

• “Through exercises in doublethink and self-delusion described in detail by Revel, democracies are fatally prone to questioning their own motives and giving their opponents the benefit of the doubt.”

  Spilling the Beans in Paris and London

• “But as I hope to show in my discussion of pro-choice reasoning, doublethink is not all that persuasive.”

  Feminism and Abortion

• “One essential consequence of doublethink is that the Party can rewrite history with impunity, for "The Party is never wrong.”

  Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

• “Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink.”

  futuristguy

• “In practice it was not difficult for any person well grounded in doublethink (Orwell’s emphasis) to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished’ vii”

  Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four

• “The modern right winger could give Comrade Molatov and Baghdad Bob lessons in doublethink.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Distinctions

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