Anti-Semitic findings about American workers were suppressed to spare American opinion

Evidence

Moreover, another reason for the Institut’s general reluctance to publish the work had an effect. As Pollock remembers it, the conclusions of the study were so damaging to American labor that the Institut, with its characteristic caution, was hesitant about broadcasting its findings. As early as July, 1944• as mentioned earlier, Horkheimer had worried about the reaction of American domestic opinion to “a hunch of foreign-born intellectuals sticking their noses into the private affairs of American workers.” 17 More than half the workers surveyed had shown anti-Semitic bias of one sort or another, but in 1953 the Institut’s leadership wished to tone this down. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 675

Categorization

• SEED: The caution of exile intellectuals toning down damning empirical findings about their host country is an essay angle on academic self-censorship and gratitude politics.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-Semitic attitudes hide inside seemingly fair-minded item phrasing — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 449; The broadcast industry suppressed findings of its own violence effects report; The genre of colonial reports suppressed emotion that nonetheless leaked through — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1284 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The broadcast industry suppressed findings of its own violence effects report #exemplifies (0.80)
• Anti-Semitic attitudes hide inside seemingly fair-minded item phrasing #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 449
• The genre of colonial reports suppressed emotion that nonetheless leaked through #exemplifies (0.72) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1284