Sentences with phrase «white liberal guilt»

(One is also reminded of the character in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace who uncomplainingly accepts her rape by three black men out of white liberal guilt.)

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.

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.

White liberal guilt is a cultivated taste, and fewer people are making the effort.

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Not so long ago, it was called â $ œthe Indian problem, â $ and although white guilt and liberal gentility has evolved semantically to the point where new locutions are required annually to describe C...

Just your liberal white guilt talking.

White liberals, guilt - ridden (I write from experience), accepted this spurious definition at face value.

He reminded me of the guilt - ridden white liberals in the»60s who invited the Black Panthers into their wealthy homes and thought they were so chic.

How about you put aside your white, liberal guilt and realize that not be such a knee - jerk, cartoonish anti-Western, anti-American stooge.