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Originally Posted by downquark1
a) This is not new information, this is new perspective. If they had known about Saville in the 80s they would not have tolerated it. Everyone knew how these slavers made their money, it was not a secret. It was not exactly fondly looked upon at the time by everyone.
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Plenty of people knew about Saville by the 1980s. It was tolerated, and his activities weren’t taken seriously, because of a combination of a cult of celebrity around him (a pernicious and ongoing problem especially within large media organisations like the BBC), and society in general not taking child abuse seriously.