Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.