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Originally Posted by danielf
What evidence (other than the fact that Savile was able to operate seemingly undetected), is there that there are very many of his colleagues (past and present) that share this attitude?
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I'm thinking along the lines of passive, permissive attitudes rather than "yeah, paedophilia!" attitudes really.
What struck me during the Panorama report last night was how many people knew, or suspected, what was going on, or treated it as a sort of 'common knowledge'. It fits with much of what has been said about "groupie culture" over the past couple of weeks - essentially, that the idea that underage teens being felt up or shagged by celebrities a decade or more older than them, in their dressing rooms was perhaps a bit racy but not particularly serious.
It seems to me that a lot of people cared too little and allowed the outrageous to become mere background noise.