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05/25/2008: "Jew Praises Liberal Guilt - especially inherited guilt"

Critics of Obama supporters who use the phrase "guilty liberal" or "liberal guilt" in a condescending, above-it-all manner suggest there's something weak about feeling guilt; they paint a trivializing, Woody Allen caricature of it.

Actually, I think it requires a kind of strength, not weakness, to face the ugly truths of history and to react to them in an honest way. "Liberal guilt" isn't a reason one must automatically support a black candidate, but that doesn't mean that liberal guilt-better defined as an awareness of the need to contend with, and overcome, a racist past-shouldn't be a factor in politics.

Of course, it's not enough just to feel guilty or to act on guilt alone. But guilt can often spur us to deal with the enduring consequences of the injustices of the past and force us not to pretend there are none.

[ The problem is that this is a case of feeling guilt where one is entirely innocent of that crime which one is being made to feel guilty about. The Jew who wrote the piece also wrote a book called "Explaning Hitler" - see the connection? ]

http://www.slate.com/id/2191906/