Sentences with phrase «on white guilt»

Robert Gober, not known for an ongoing commitment to racial issues, produced what he saw as a commentary on white guilt by juxtaposing a white sleeping man with a black hanged man in a 1989 lithograph — and generated a similar controversy to today's when black employees at the Hirshhorn Museum, where it was exhibited, protested.

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Such efforts give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable of facing the truth about their situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

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while i can definitely get behind curbing consumption every day, (which, like you said is the point), i read something recently that made me rethink buy nothing day: http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=4014 it argues that buy nothing day is a day for priviledged white people to assuage their guilt about their own over-consumption while simultaneously looking down on lower - income people who may not be able to afford to pass up those black friday doorbusters.

It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist soc

It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist society.

The real insult is von Trier's presumption that audiences will fail to see through Grace's naïveté, or that her slow comeuppance — white guilt roasting on a spit — will fill us with fascinated dread.

In a film filled with examples of whites either habitually exploiting blacks — or even in the case of the fundamentally decent but chronically guilt - stricken Schultz, deciding to «take responsibility» for them — Stephen's calculated and ultimately self - defeating betrayal of a figurative «brother» is truly diabolical and heartbreaking, not to mention a ballsy move for Tarantino, who could have easily gotten away cleaner as a white writer - director without hinging the back half of his movie on a case of Southern Stockholm Syndrome.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

It's a little confusing why the film doesn't simply make Tonto a white guy who takes on what he believes is the personality of a Comanche because he feels guilt for what the white man has done.

But even those who loathe Herbert Spencer and his theories on natural selection should question these characters and their motivations, whether motivated by guilt or a sort of perverse white supremacist ignorance.

For the first act, we are introduced to our main characters: a poor Latin - American mother and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul, the real hearts of this film), an insufferable yuppie couple on the brink of divorce (Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) from which we get the lion's share of our Crash - style white guilt narrative, and Frank Grillo as a grieving father / ex-soldier who feels the urge to Purge one particular soul on this night.

They have blithely ignored lessons learned when the Great Society's social engineers sought to sustain ambitious social programs on the backs of guilt - ridden white suburbanites, only to fail spectacularly.

Strategies must and should include preparation for rescue, support, rebuilding and population rebuilding rather than wasting money on misguided «white guilt» shutting down of western economies.

CU traits include characteristics such as lack of remorse and guilt, shallow and deficient emotions, as well as an over-focus on reward and insensitivity to punishment, lack of empathy, which are all considered to be the core features of psychopathy (Frick et al., 2003; Frick and White, 2008).