[MD] Steele meets Pirsig on common ground

[Case]

> > "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.
Platt
So Khaled, there's nothing good about America, or white people? 

[Case]
Our sins do not dispossess us of good
Anymore than the beauty in us
Renders us incapable of evil 
Redemption from guilt
Comes only from repentance
Arrogance and denial are 
Our greatest transgressions