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...Nobel laureate, was named head of the 17-member, multiracial Truth Commission, which will investigate crimes of the apartheid era. The panel will have the power to recommend amnesty or prosecution in each case, but to be eligible for amnesty, individuals will have to come forward and admit their guilt. Malan will have no part of this and will take his chances in court...
...Dartboard would like to make this process much simpler for those who missed the meeting on Wednesday. We'll happily tell you the source of all that guilt, no extensive study necessary; it's the Jewish mother...
...Jewish mother, legendary creator of guilt, needs little introduction or explanation. The simple phrase "No, it's alright..."(left trailing off at the end) succinctly expresses the true guilt-producing power of the Jewish mother. Examine these examples...
...might ask how the Jewish mother became responsible for the guilt of our Catholic friends as well. The answer is purely historical, since Catholicism is merely a popular off-shoot of Judaism--and a financially successful one at that! In effect, all Catholic mothers are just Jewish mothers whose ancestors took a detour several years...
...course, this claim need not be universalized to all guilt. The emergence of mothers in other cultures--Chinese, Italian, you name it--has given rise to the theory that guilt has prime sources all over the world. In fact, the sentence "No, let the children have it; I'll be fine..." has been found translated in more than 200 languages and dialects as well as in ancient hieroglyphs...