Knowledge need not yield ethical conscience against imperial hypocrisies.

Evidence

Several premises are questionable in these arguments: one, that more knowledge necessarily leads to more power; two, that knowledge necessarily leads to ethical awareness; and three, that such awareness would produce the sort of active, ethical conscience that would lead people to reject imperial hypocrisies, or, at the very least, its basest acts. Fundamental to these accounts is the assumption that these unnuanced distinctions— knowledge versus ignorance, or acceptance versus refusal—adequately describe the inhabited space of empire for those in its service and those it empowered, that is, both the cognitive conditions and political choices of empire’s European and American agents and actors. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1343

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with reader’s prior ‘ignorance as achieved effect’ framing—knowledge as non-guarantor of critique.
• QUESTION: What historical cases does the author marshal to show knowledge failing to yield ethical rejection?