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- noun The
crime of havingunorthodox orunofficial thoughts (thoughtcrimes ).
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All words grouping themselves round the concepts of liberty and equality, for instance, were contained in the single word crimethink, while all words grouping themselves round the concepts of objectivity and rationalism were contained in the single word oldthink.
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Unchecked by the judiciary, the NSA electronically trolls for perpetrators of "crimethink".
Shed Your Addiction: 2006
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In George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labelling unapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime or, in Newspeak, "crimethink".
Thoughtcrime 1995
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The people who get in the most trouble for crimethink are the ones who obviously know what they are talking about: James D. Watson, Larry Summers, Charles Murray, Arthur Jensen, Edward O. Wilson, and so forth.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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And what we see there are Inner Party alpha males like Larry Summers and James Watson being publicly humiliated to encourage the others to not crimethink.
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If people can be arrested for merely believing what other people have written, then George Orwell was right, and England has embraced “crimethink” (the unlawful thinking of forbidden thoughts.) Dave Marney (Quote)
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And what we see there are Inner Party alpha males like Larry Summers and James Watson being publicly humiliated to encourage the others to not crimethink.
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The people who get in the most trouble for crimethink are the ones who obviously know what they are talking about: James D. Watson, Larry Summers, Charles Murray, Arthur Jensen, Edward O. Wilson, and so forth.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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I know as well as anybody here that such an idea is doubleplusungood crimethink.
The Streets Are Paved With Gold...stay home! Steven Barnes 2010
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If people can be arrested for merely believing what other people have written, then George Orwell was right, and England has embraced “crimethink” the unlawful thinking of forbidden thoughts.
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