Moral resisters within institutions routinely pay career costs for reporting wrongdoing

Evidence

Thompson’s killing mission abruptly had turned into a humanitarian one. He did not stop there, however. On returning to base, he reported the carnage to his commander, only to be told to keep quiet and that pursuing it further could get him into trouble. Undeterred, he contacted members of his battalion until he found one who was willing to corroborate his story. … Thompson filed a formal report that ultimately resulted in the court-martial of Lieutenant Calley. The moral power of one had triumphed over the antagonistic force of many, but Thompson received no military commenda-tion for his heroic actions at the time. Thirty years later, a ceremony was held at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial honoring the extraordinary heroism of Thompson’s prosocial morality (Zganjar, 1998). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 657

Categorization

• XREF: Thompson’s thirty-year non-award is the whistleblower-cost pattern the vault already sees in Islamophobia-enabling institutions — moral resistance is chronically punished at time of action.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 657