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The first thing Mr. Steele notes is that his film probably isn't what you think it is. The film isn't really about guilt at all, least of all guilt about slavery or other depredations against blacks.

White guilt, Mr. Steele says, is the "terror of being seen as a racist." And expiating white guilt turns out to have nothing to do with changes that would improve life for those whom whites deem oppressed. Instead it's about using claims of victimhood for power. White guilt has even been grafted onto the conflict in Gaza, where Palestinians have become the slaves and Israelis the evil American slave owners.

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"The one truth I've known my entire life [is that] the principles of Western civilization are not tribal," Mr. Steele says. "They are universal. I've had my turn in America. People have always asked me, 'Shelby, what's the answer to this evil of white guilt?'

"My answer is always the same: Courage. Be an American. Believe in the founding principles of America. Most of all, believe in freedom itself. It only finds expression in the individual. Nobody gave me my freedom. No one can. Freedom is within you. Seize it or don't."

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Shelby Steele Sr's columns back in the 90's were right up there with Thomas Sowell's.

lol. I've never felt white guilt. Have any of you? I mean it would be nice if slavery and discrimination never happened, but I didn't have anything to do with it.

Leftists weaponize white guilt and use it the same way religions use the doctrine of original sin

Why? Because think about it: What positive things does leftism have to offer middle class white Christian families? The answer of course is nothing. Leftism will raise their taxes, kill their family business, replace their children's education with propaganda, bring crime, drugs and violence into their community.

There is literally nothing of substance they can offer these people.

So they don't.

What they offer is quasi religious absolution for the original sin of being white. They reinforce it through their Madrassas of public education and Hollywood entertainment.

Everything bad in the world is your fault for being white and no amount of being a good person can make up for the systemic racism your very existence creates.

But Lo my children! Ift thou shalt Accept Big Brother into thy heart (and wallet) and summit to His Church here on Earth; the Democratic Party, then thoust may be transfigured into One Of The Good White People and allowed to be accepted into polite society

That it. That's the scam

Vote Dem and you are now a good person

If you're thinking "wow only an idiot would fall for that!" ….well you're not wrong

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Queso1 said:

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lol. I've never felt white guilt. Have any of you? I mean it would be nice if slavery and discrimination never happened, but I didn't have anything to do with it.

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Not I. I do discriminate profusely, but I choose to discriminate on factors other than race. Things like thug status, wokeness, and sometimes religion.

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Ditto. Some cultures are inferior and they deserve ridicule and discrimination.

Live in a s******* country in s******* conditions because you are too dumb, lazy, corrupt, or generally unwilling to do what it takes to create something you would prefer to live in?

The solution is easy! Just blame it all on people who did what it took to achieve what you weren't willing to do, and demand they give it all to you. If they don't, call them evil.

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Live in a s******* country in s******* conditions because you are too dumb, lazy, corrupt, or generally unwilling to do what it takes to create something you would prefer to live in?

The solution is easy! Just blame it all on people who did what it took to achieve what you weren't willing to do, and demand they give it all to you. If they don't, call them evil.

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Your post reminded me of this



I have nothing else to add here.