Via Paul
There are several different approaches to
the study of the pathology of White guilt, including linguistic,
historical and religious. One needs, however, to critically look at this
faulty verbal construct first, a construct which first appeared in
America several decades ago, and which has been championed in the media
and academia ever since.
At first look, the expression “White guilt” defies lexical rules of
Standard English. Should one accept this expression as a valid tool in
social and political communication, one might just as well substitute
the adjective “white” with the adjectives “brown,” “yellow,” or “black.”
So far, however, no scholar, no journalist has ever ventured to use the
expressions Black Guilt or Brown Guilt, for the simple reason that from
the semantic point of view these colorful expressions sound silly in
the standard English language. The same lexical rule, however, does not
apply to White guilt, an expression that has become by now part of the
everyday language. In addition, seen from the educational perspective,
the expression “White Guilt” is designed to serve as a guidebook for
reeducating and reprograming Whites, or short of that for having Whites
expiate their real or alleged sins of racism. Conversely, all other
non-White racial categories are automatically exonerated from any guilt
feelings and thusly from any need for political penitence.
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