“….Authoritarians often coerce people to go along with what they know are lies, making them reluctant coconspirtators who may be deceiving yet other parties. Knowledge is power, and the equitable distribution of knowledge is inseperable from other forms of equality. Without equal access to the facts, equal capacity in decision-making is impossible.
Just as lying tries to prevent some kinds of information from getting out, so other kinds of abuse of power try to prevent facts, information, perspectives from getting in, by forming classes of people whose voices and testimony will be excluded by law, or by discrediting or intimidating them, or by perpetuating their subordinate status….”

–Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses