Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. –“Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell What type of evidence does Orwell use in the passage to support the claim that "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible”?
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George Orwell uses examples - 'millions of peasants are robbed of their farms', 'people are imprisoned for years without ot trial or shot in the back of the neck.
These are all examples he uses to support his claim of 'political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensibe' but using examples of the indefensible.
