Walter Kern criticizes Orwell’s revisionism in Hollywood (Wikipedia) – Tense
Wikipedia has been in the news recently after Elon Musk debuted his new AI-based alternative, Grokipedia. Naturally, Wikipedia’s extremely left-biased base could not withstand any challenge to its false authority (like most far-left institutions), so it and Wired immediately published hit articles against Musk’s new project, calling it a repository of “far-right talking points.”
Of course, this kind of propaganda no longer works, especially when it comes from Wikipedia, a site full of left-wing lies on most topics. Accordingly, most people, including author Walter Kern, promptly ignored this agitation and recommended Grokipedia as a much better resource tool.
I once had dinner in New York City with a great screenwriter. While we were eating, he checked his phone several times, and he was angry. It turns out that someone was editing his Wikipedia entry in ways he found deceptive. I couldn’t do a damn thing.
I will use Grokipedia now. I try not to rely on these tools…
– Walter Kern (@waltercairn) October 29, 2025
This is the biggest lie about Wikipedia: that it depends entirely on the user. In fact, it is controlled by leftist editors who do not tolerate anything that contradicts their agenda.
One user responded to Kern with a funny example of Wikipedia deception, citing the entry for George Orwell’s famous book, Animal Farm.
Or more precisely, the new 2025 movie that is… ahem… “based” on this book.
I note that this description says nothing about Stalinism, but this may be an accurate reflection of the revisionist tendency of those who espouse it. The point is, I had to wonder. pic.twitter.com/tpXS3ylRiR
– Mark Darling (@RalphWGoethe) October 29, 2025
Wait…Animal Farm is an anti-capitalist allegory? seriously?
Ha.
Haha.
Hahahahahahahahaha.
Kern couldn’t believe his eyes, and replied – accurately – that this description was not only wrong; He got it 180 degrees wrong.
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Oh, my God
They turned Animal Farm around https://t.co/cbRQ7JV0U0
– Walter Kern (@waltercairn) October 29, 2025
It’s as ironic as when Kern and Matt Taibbi noted that the 75th anniversary edition of Orwell’s 1984 contains a preface offering “trigger warnings.”
Total madness https://t.co/uc2Z0O3Gbx
– Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) October 29, 2025
If people can roll their eyes from beyond the grave, Orwell’s eyes certainly roll in the back of his head.
– Craig. (@jax’s friends) October 30, 2025
Very funny.
Yes, we’re sure Stalin would have loved for Sarkis and Wikipedia to remove all references to his cruel, bloody regime on Animal Farm.
So they’re Animal Farm in 1984? https://t.co/hOgJA5EIJf
– Keith (@KeithinRockies) October 30, 2025
Pretty much, yes.
The Ministry of Truth would be proud.
Job description of the protagonist Winston Smith in 1984, Orwell’s other great book.
“Changing historical records so that they match the current version of the party narrative.”
-Steve (@mkito) October 30, 2025
To be fair, Wikipedia may not bear all the blame here, since Andy Serkis’ new animated film He does Betraying the true meaning and message of Orwell’s novel.
But the fact that Wikipedia contains no reference to this apparent reversal is enough to condemn the platform in itself.
Grokipedia was happy to provide it A better, more comprehensive and accurate description:
While praised for its animation and voice performances, the adaptation has drawn criticism for prioritizing broad appeal over the novel’s prophetic warnings against the dangers of collectivism, which may make its cautionary message less resonant in an era in which such symbols remain empirically relevant to real-world authoritarian drifts.
amazing. What a “far-right” explanation. Very funny.
George Orwell: Man I hate communism, let me write some fictional political commentaries about dystopian hypothetical societies to express how much I hate it. There is no possible way to misunderstand this.
Modern Leftism: Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this https://t.co/ludXGhYZT7
— OfMiceandMatt (@breadstickzzz) October 30, 2025
…and there he is. Orwellian singularity. https://t.co/unx7oDPwmT
-Gimbot (@Gimbot) October 30, 2025
It’s a bit cliché to call everything “Orwellian,” but – boy – if anything qualifies as such, it is.
There’s a word for this, I think. https://t.co/vngaQnk2rn
— Sarah Homeopathy 🐭 (@bighealer_sarah) October 30, 2025
Well…what could this word be?
“Loosely following the plot of the novel.”
I’m waiting for a movie at Ford’s Theater where Lincoln kills Booth. https://t.co/uIQCzz0BiK– Michael Wade (@execupundit) October 29, 2025
Ha!
It is beautiful that they exploit the weak understanding of a literary work about communism – all for the sake of capitalist profit – while pretending to be against capitalism.
– Eliot Ranch (@eliotranch) October 30, 2025
Simply layered with sarcasm like the beginning.
Ironically, the inverted “Animal Farm” is the most Stalinist thing ever.
– Cold Cathode Man (@ColdCathodeMan) October 30, 2025
Technically, the most Stalinist thing ever would be to burn all copies of the original Animal Farm and kill anyone who owned them.
But we don’t think Sarkis or Wikipedia could get away with this much sarcasm.
As Kern pointed out in his original post, the best course of action is not to rely too much on resource tools like Wikipedia or Grokipedia.
But if we had to pick one right now, we’d pick the one that uses “far-right talking points.”
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