Colleagues who knew of the abuse collectively chose to look away

Evidence

De’Ath went on to say that Savile’s sexual activities were widely known among his colleagues, but no one intervened: … “Nobody grassed [informed the police] on him in any way, although we all knew” (Alleyne, 2012). Another former BBC producer, Esther Rantzen, described him as “untouchable.” She said, “We all blocked our ears to the gossip.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 563

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the psychology of bystander silence in powerful institutions — ‘we all knew’ as a collective moral blackout.