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- noun A
crime committed by havingunorthodox ,unofficial ,controversial or socially unacceptablethoughts .
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Examples
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Any attempt to deny a thoughtcrime is itself a thoughtcrime.
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"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death."
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The book contributed several iconic terms to the political lexicon -- "Big Brother," "thoughtcrime" -- and perhaps most profoundly prescient -- the concept of "doublethink."
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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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Dubious -- but if anyone wants to defend the idea of "thoughtcrime," be my guest.
Was RapeLay 'Asking For It'? SVGL 2009
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This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking "thoughtcrime" or speech impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on.
Archive 2008-01-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Some people believe governments may be currently enforcing laws that implement a de-facto kind of thoughtcrime legislation.
Thoughtcrime 1995
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This suited the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim was to make subversive thought ( "thoughtcrime") and speech impossible.
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The real issue here is about getting the ISP’s in a position to filter content, specifically content that is politically ‘inconvenient’ or could be labelled thoughtcrime hate-crime.
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If you want to try to define the various things that Operation Predator as "thoughtcrime", go right ahead but the vast majority of Americans think that individuals that take concrete steps to, say, have intercourse with a young child ought to be punished.
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word thoughtcrime
"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1
July 26, 2009