Word: guilting
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...that these McCarthyite tactics of guilt by association are returning to favor, perhaps we should remember innocence by association as well. After all, the pope’s dear cousin was killed by the Nazis. So, too, was Rene Lefebvre, father of the SSPX’s founder. He died at the Sonnenburg concentration camp in 1944, two years after his arrest by the Gestapo for participating in the French resistance. While pronouncing on the evils of historical forgetting, it would be wise for us not to be guilty of it ourselves...
...deeply personal. That's because Portugal's former dictatorship, in power between 1932 and 1974, used to torture its political opponents. Members of the current government include victims of that torture; Portuguese society is also dotted with its perpetrators. "The collective subconscious of the Portuguese is full of guilt," says Lisbon lawyer Francisco Teixeira da Mota, a human rights activist...
...psychological woes too: neuroticism in Dutch twins, obsessive-compulsive symptoms in Italians, death anxiety among Egyptian nursing students and substance abuse in adolescents in Jerusalem. They have tried to measure the benefits of Bible therapy for patients with Alzheimer's disease, as well as the impact of religious guilt and congregational criticism on doubting members of the flock. They've looked at the health effects of psychoactive sacramentals (think peyote) and the spiritual preferences of neo-pagans (think Wiccans and druids...
...Read TIME's story: "After Layoffs, There's Survivor's Guilt...
...says Professor Duncan Kennedy, who sneers that these are “fairly common, understandable undergraduate attitudes,” before offering “context” (in an op-ed published in The Harvard Crimson on January 30) that aims to make Israel’s overwhelming guilt clear...