To be clear, guilt itself is often irrational. It serves a useful psychological function – reminding you of your mistakes and urging you to correct them. However, people tend to hold onto guilt for too long, indulging in it masochistically. Therefore, any subset of guilt, including White Guilt, can be irrational. This, however, is a trivial point.
White guilt is just one of the many kinds of “guilts of the privileged” found across the globe . For instance in India, a government headed by members from the upper castes bestowed privileges like job and education quotas to those from lower castes by virtue of the latter being oppressed and ill treated during the nineteenth century. As rightly indicated in the article, guilt is fine so long as it urges you to reach out to help the under privileged.
Two ways to grow an economy- to steal and increase productivity. The White Man, till recently, blatantly stole through colonialism. Now, they use unfair trade deals and keeping despots in power to steal. During both times, they kept the productivity machine in their countries chugging along very well by maintaining efficient and productive education and trade systems open to individuals based on merit.
A middle-class White need not feel any guilt for the pillage and destruction as the White elites ran the show of stealing, education and commerce. Most elites, anywhere in this world, can not experience guilt as they don't have a heart.
White guilt is just one of the many kinds of “guilts of the privileged” found across the globe . For instance in India, a government headed by members from the upper castes bestowed privileges like job and education quotas to those from lower castes by virtue of the latter being oppressed and ill treated during the nineteenth century. As rightly indicated in the article, guilt is fine so long as it urges you to reach out to help the under privileged.
Two ways to grow an economy- to steal and increase productivity. The White Man, till recently, blatantly stole through colonialism. Now, they use unfair trade deals and keeping despots in power to steal. During both times, they kept the productivity machine in their countries chugging along very well by maintaining efficient and productive education and trade systems open to individuals based on merit.
A middle-class White need not feel any guilt for the pillage and destruction as the White elites ran the show of stealing, education and commerce. Most elites, anywhere in this world, can not experience guilt as they don't have a heart.