From the Wall Street Journal come a superb article discussing the consequences of the passing of “white supremacy”.
It addresses as issue I have been mulling over for some time namely the apparent fact that thanks to our sinful past we appear to be paralysed in our efforts to address the threats of the present.
White Guilt and the Western Past - Why is America so delicate with the enemy?:
“The collapse of white supremacy–and the resulting white guilt–introduced a new mechanism of power into the world:
stigmatization with the evil of the Western past. And this stigmatization is power because it affects the terms of legitimacy for Western nations and for their actions in the world.…White guilt makes our Third World enemies into colored victims, people whose problems–even the tyrannies they live under–were created by the historical disruptions and injustices of the white West. We must “understand” and pity our enemy even as we fight him. And, though Islamic extremism is one of the most pernicious forms of evil opportunism that has ever existed, we have felt compelled to fight it with an almost managerial minimalism that shows us to be beyond the passions of war–and thus well dissociated from the avariciousness of the white supremacist past.“
That last paragraph is superb.
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