The Tyranny of Guilt

No, western culture doesn't hold the monopoly on historical crimes against humanity - it's time for the rest of the world to come down off their high horses to finally acknowledge their own atrocities

Europeans today, perhaps uniquely, confront an imposed sense of inherited culpability—a collective 'original sin' that not only encompasses the remnants of wartime and Holocaust guilt but also extends to colonialism, racism, and other historical transgressions. This collective conscience has resulted in a formidable load, a load that historically was pr…