He defines them, with characteristic felicity, in the unused preface to Animal Farm, as those who hold that "defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought."
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Elsewhere (in his "The Prevention of Literature") he comments, "When one sees highly educated men looking on indifferently at oppression and persecution, one wonders which to despise more, their cynicism or their shortsightedness."
-Robert Conquest, channeling George Orwell
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