This highlights the 'the emperor has no clothes' syndrome where people will just ignore the bad behavior of a person because of their position or stature. Many

This highlights the 'the emperor has no clothes' syndrome where people will just ignore the bad behavior of a person because of their position or stature. Many times people will comment in confidence to close friends, because of the fear they will be vilified with a public response of the issue. It seems to me that this is more modern day anomaly driven by too much hypersensitivity in our social interaction where we self censor to avoid the most minor appearance of being critical or aggressive.