Authoritarian regimes depend on public apathy and ignorance to sustain mass atrocity

Evidence

Before I left, she stood up, straight and strong. “We have to educate our communities,” she instructed me, like a mother would her son. She understood that authoritarian regimes rely on apathy and ignorance to carry forward unspeakable evils, evils like those unfolding inside those concentration camps, where darkness opens the gates to hell on earth. A hell strategically concealed from the rest of the earth. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 581