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n. A group that aims to control what other people think.
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In the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police (Thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the superstate, Oceania, who are charged with uncovering and punishing " thoughtcrime" and thought-criminals. The Thinkpol use psychological methods and omnipresent surveillance (e.g. telescreens) to search, find, monitor, and arrest citizens of Oceania who would challenge the status quo — the authority of the Party and of Big Brother — even if only with a thought.
George Orwell’s concept of “thought policing” derived from his “power of facing unpleasant facts”, in his criticizism of society’s prevailing ideas — which often placed him in conflict with other people and their “smelly little orthodoxies”.
Usage examples of "thought police".
If you're a liberal, you don't get sent to the thought police no matter what you say or how conservophobic you may be.
The Feds, you have to understand, are so very politically correct and anal retentive, so very fucking frightened of the Washington Thought Police.
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She thought he'd been deliberately avoiding her, and now she was down here at the conference, watching him like a member of the health department Thought Police.
But censoring knowledge, telling people what they must think, is the aperture to thought police, authoritarian government, foolish and incompetent decision-making and long-term decline.
But by extension the destruction went on and on until the new and 'enlightened' regime became the thought police for the entire country.
You know how antsy the normals have been getting, worrying about operants turning into thought police and that kind of malarky.