Word: guilt
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Others who avoid this blame game fall into a trap that is just as insidious--the trap of self-redeeming racial guilt. They believe that supporting affirmative action, ethnic studies and a multicultural student center automatically makes them "good people." They believe that speaking out in favor of whatever they think students of other backgrounds want will absolve them from taking any other actions to improve ethnic relations on this campus. They believe that rhetoric is as strong as action. They believe that by feeling as guilty as possible for as long as possible, we will somehow arrive...
...groups that matter. The liberal doctrine asserts that we must recognize the historical racial injustice in this country and that we must be good citizens on the question of race by never challenging government programs or so-called minority leaders, by going along to assuage our own guilt, by paying lip service to our ideals in order to make ourselves feel better. But neither of these doctrines move to solve the problems of race that we have in this country. The predominant conservative doctrine talks much of what it wants to destroy but very little about what it wants...
...Morrel-Samuels '00 said she came to the PBHA open house out of guilt for not buying Spare Change News in the Square...
Although many of Keating's junk-bond customers consider him "the Hannibal Lecter of finance," as one put it, he clings to his claim of innocence, blaming regulators and Congress for his troubles. Indeed, some of his fellow inmates told TIME that he never admitted guilt or regret for his actions. Kevin McKinley, a convicted Irish Republican Army weapons dealer, grew close to Keating as the two walked the prison yard. As he put it, "Charlie was never a rat. He refused to sell out his associates and wouldn't compromise with the government just to get a better deal...
Minnesota in the winter of 1949 is a world where everyone knows his place, and that place is often church, where proprieties are observed and secrets have a charge. Richard and Sarah MacEwan are a sweet-natured, guilt-edged couple held together by custom, affection and a devotion as much to the settled lives they've created over 30 years as to each other. But when his younger brother dies, Richard finds among his unmarried sibling's papers an intimate letter from Sarah and is suddenly propelled beyond the limit of what he knows and what he wants to know...