One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
It is interesting that, in a completely different set of circumstances and historical context, Orwell was wrestling with a concept with which we are still plagued today. Orwell defines nationalism in such a fashion to cover what he is getting at. Today we call it identity politics. But it still amounts to the same thing, the defining of a peoples on some narrow characteristic or feature and denying them agency as being fully human and subject to all the rich variety of all humans.
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