Word: guilting
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Waite argues that “the pieces encourage not only hackneyed white guilt but male, middle-class, Christian, heterosexual, and able-bodied guilt as well.” However, the introduction of the packet explicitly states, “The emphasis is not on finding ‘right answers,” but on figuring out where you stand on an issue and articulating your position for the benefit of the group.” At no point does the committee seem to attack one particular group or label one as right and another as wrong...
When Saltwater crocodiles killed a human on Australia's northeast coast in the old days, a posse of gun-toting locals would converge on the area, blast all crocs to death, slit open their bellies to establish guilt, and release the unfortunate victim's remains for a decent burial. But in these environmentally enlightened times, authorities are taking a very different approach - and not everybody is happy about...
...When you start to think about the vast digital databases that shadow our lives, the general incomprehension about the Middle East, and the readiness to blacklist people - guilt by association - you start to suspect George Orwell was right. And, incidentally, it doesn't have to be this way. Before 9/11, the FBI and CIA sifted through tens of thousands of terrorist leads every day. Ninety nine point nine per cent turn out to be bogus. The names never made it onto national master list and stayed in the raw files where they belonged. We missed 9/11, but not because...
...member of a “Black Nationalist church with a Pan Africanist philosophy.” While a couple of the readings dwell upon the figure of the wrong-headed, young, white man, unable to acknowledge his racial privilege, the pieces encourage not only hackneyed white guilt but male, middle-class, Christian, heterosexual, and able-bodied guilt as well. Likewise, the freshmen were exposed to a poetic call for revolution and thereby were informed of the existence of a “war between races...
...spend $139,000 a piece on these ads? Did you feel guilty that you had made money betting on the bailout? I just felt like it was totally unfair that millions and millions of people were going to be on the hook for enriching people like me. I felt guilt and outrage and disgust all at the same time...