No effort to educate the public in order to advance social justice can afford to dispense with a respect for basic facts. In the long and continuing battle against oppression of every kind, an insistence on plain and accurate facts has been a powerful tool against propaganda that is widely accepted as truth. That tool is far too important to cede now.
Sean Wilentz, “A Matter of Facts” The Atlantic 22 January, 2020
Another great quote.
It seems, though, that there are people who think “basic facts” don’t bear any relation to truth, or are a White, male institution.