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which on their own merits would get the big headlines—being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that "it wouldn't do" to mention that particular fact. ... At this moment what is demanded by the prevailing orthodoxy is an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia. Everyone knows this, nearly everyone acts on it. Any serious criticism of the Soviet regime, any disclosure of facts which the Soviet Government would prefer to keep hidden, is next door to unprintable.
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The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news—things
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of which they were the victims. Rather than being encouraged and equipped to know and respond to the concrete realities of the world, they were kept "submerged" in a situation in which such critical awareness and response were practically impossible. And it became clear to him that the whole
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were powerless because "It cannot keep up its infamous rule, but by terror. There is a conspiracy without any doubt spread over the whole country–the conspiracy of silence and watchful expectation. ... e will patiently await the right moment, and then rise as one
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reported that prominent men were patronizing brothels. When authorities accused the paper of obscenity and tried to block its distribution, the paper's editors thanked them for "thereby breaking the conspiracy of silence maintained by the press concerning
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community in Massachusetts were unwilling to share information that would facilitate homicide investigations because of their reliance on vigilante justice, fear of retaliation by criminals, and anti-police
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in 2013, sometimes agree to avoid topics they all find difficult: "But on one topic, there was a conspiracy of silence: Republicans and Democrats agreed that they did not really want to talk about the Iraq
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by New York City and state. An official of the federal government said they needed to bring the problems "out in the open" to overcome a "conspiracy of silence" that prevented public education efforts.
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describes the consistent refusal of white sportswriters to report the decades-long efforts to integrate professional baseball in the United States.
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The unspoken agreement of journalists and media outlets to suppress coverage of topics that their readers, advertisers, or sources prefer to avoid.
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magazine named the "Silence Breakers", the people who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment, including the figureheads of the
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Some instances of such a practice are sufficiently well-known or enduring to become known by their own specific terms, including the
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to characterize the failure of the non-Catholic press in Western Europe and the U.S. to cover the persecution of Christians in the
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Co-workers may avoid criticizing a colleague, for example, pilots not reporting another pilot's alcohol problem.
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A conference of social workers and medical personnel in 1936 urged greater efforts to prevent the spread of
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and the damage of that silence to the lives of LGBT people. The phrase would also be applicable to the
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educational system was one of the major instruments for the maintenance of this culture of silence.
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Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
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Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis
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women, children, and men in the U.S. were able to suppress the cases through
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Zacharek, Stephanie; Dockterman, Eliana; Edwards, Haley Sweetland.
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An 1854 report on unrest in Hungary said the rulers of the
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Examples of the use of the term vary widely and include:
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was written to "smash the conspiracy of silence" around
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Guynn, Jessica; della Cava, Marco (October 25, 2017).
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Index

Culture of silence
Conspiracy of silence (disambiguation)
taboo
euphemisms
code of silence
omertĂ 
Sicily
Streisand effect
Austrian Empire
Pall Mall Gazette
lesbian novel
The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall
homosexuality
banning of the book
UK censorship laws
syphilis
Pius XI
encyclical
Divini Redemptoris
Soviet Union
Mexico
Spain
George Orwell
Animal Farm
Richard Shaull
Paulo Freire
culture of silence
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
paternalism

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