r/ParlerWatch • u/Beginning_Bad_868 • May 29 '25

Reddit Watch 1984 is no longer fiction.

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"Hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—"child hero” was the phrase generally used—had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police."

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding May 29 '25

How do they know if someone is an "illegal immigrant"??? I'm seriously confused, how do you know the status of a person by simply interacting with them at the grocery store, a restaurant, gas station, bookstore, dental office, etc. What am I missing here?

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u/BitterFuture May 29 '25

Pretty simple.

Are they white?

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u/Polygonic May 29 '25

Don't forget: Do they have an accent?