"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."

-George Orwell, 1984

Reddit just scrubbed its forum devoted to discussing Donald Trump on the shaky grounds that he engaged in the oldest of neoliberal aces-in-the-hole: "hate speech."

The Silicon Valley tech giant also rolled out a treacherously Orwellian new content policy ripped straight from the Big Brother playbook. "Rule #1," the foremost stipulation governing Reddit users' behavior, goes like this:

"Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned."

How does a non-liberal arts graduate student begin to navigate this minefield of SJW (Social Justice Warrior) buzzwords? What do banal aphorisms like "remember the human" possibly offer as moral justifications for curtailing the free expression of Reddit users?

The management at Reddit succumbed to the SJW mob's demand after several weeks of relentless hen-pecking by the Atlantic and other oligarch-run outlets to "face its legacy of racism" (whatever that means).

SJWs voice their bleating approval of Reddit's jackbooted banning of wrongthink on its platform. But – as they remind us — there are always more books to be burned and more problematic opinions to be silenced.

Let's pump the brakes on this SJW crazy train.

First of all, the hypocritical double standards are glaring; arguably the most obvious case of "hate speech" ever recorded — based on the giant platforms' own preposterous standards — offered up in May by the dreariest beneficiary of affirmative action in standup comedy, Kathy Griffin, has gone wholly unpunished. Griffin, along with her comrades in the SJW mob, has skated by thus far because she plays for the right political team.