There are several reasons for why the prestige press is so fundamentalist in its fervor to stereowipe... The third is ideology: knowledge is evil. The fourth is the sheer will to power.

Sorry, but I think this is too partisan and arational (has Sailer even tried to imagine what his "enemies" think and believe before professing that they are basically Stalin and O'Brien?) to quote on LW. You could've just linked to the post.