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If you read George Orwell's Animal Farm, you definitely remember Squealer. The pig who spread Napoleon’s propaganda among the other animals. Justified the pigs’ monopolization of resources & spreads false statistics pointing to the farm’s success.
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Squealer, was an exemplary sycophantic mouth piece. A good example thus, of the many ways in which those in power, often use rhetoric & language to twist the truth. To gain, maintain social & political control.

A silver-tongued pig, who always abused language to justify Napoleon’s actions & policies to the proletariat by whatever means seem necessary.
By radically simplifying language—as when he taught the sheep to bleat “Four legs good, two legs better!”—limiting the terms of debate.

By complicating language unnecessarily, he confused & intimidated the uneducated, for example, when he explained that pigs, who were supposedly the “brain-workers” of the farm, consumed milk and apples not for pleasure, but for the good of their comrades.

In this latter strategy, he would also employ jargon (“tactics, tactics”) as well as a baffling vocabulary of false & impenetrable statistics, engendering in the other animals both self-doubt & a sense of hopelessness about ever accessing the truth without the pigs’ mediation.

Squealer’s lack of conscience & unwavering loyalty to his leader, alongside his rhetorical skills, made him the perfect propagandist for all tyranny.

Squealer’s name also fitted him well: squealing, of course, refers to a pig’s typical form of vocalization, & Squealer’s speech defined him. At the same time, to squeal also means to betray, aptly evoking Squealer’s behavior with regard to his fellow animals.

How different is our squealer in the Animal Farm Kenya certainly is, to the original one ? @wmnjoya @JerotichSeii @RasnaWarah @gathara @Anon1KENYA @GatimuMuchai @OderoProf @MutemiWaKiama @Abrahalm @HakiNgo @Hitlerlaw2 @FauzKhalid @VictorMwambacha @chothep
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