[MD] Steele meets Pirsig on common ground

[Khaled Alkotob]

[Platt]
> In a WSJ editorial recently, Shelby Steele, author of "White Guilt," 
> 
> wrote the following:
> 
> "Anti-Americanism, whether in Europe or on the American left, works 
> by  the mechanism of white guilt. It stigmatizes America with all the 
> imperialistic and racist ugliness of the white Western past so that 
> America becomes a kind of straw man, a construct of Western sin. 
> (The  Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons were the focus of such 
> stigmatization campaigns.) 


[Khaled]
The fact the above happened,, happens and will happen again, proves that
it is not a stigma, but rather a relaying of the TRUTH.

I rest my case your honor.