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Entry: Addicted to Guilt Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/addicted_to_guilt#2568 Post contents: The phenomenon of "conservatives" adopting "liberal" positions is so broad and deep, taking in so many areas besides race relations, that I don't think "white guilt" explains very much of it. Many American conservatives were upset at the establishment media describing hardline Communists as "conservative" in the waning days of the Soviet empire, but if you take "conservative" as meaning a defender of the status quo, then that is what they were. Communism was the status quo in those countries. By the same token, liberalism is the status quo of the West, defended by "conservatives" whose heroes are Lincoln, FDR, and MLK and who favor spreading their ideology to the rest of the world by force just as their "conservative" counterparts in the Soviet Union did. Sent at: 2008 05 16