The Southern Baptists broke away from the Northern abolitionists precisely because they agreed with the slave lord’s approval of slavery. And a lot of Southerners fought in CW 1, did so on the orders of the Southern Baptists and the secular slave lord’s authorities, even though many Confederates did not own slaves. Nor did they like slavery, as Lee did not like slavery.

Neo’s “garden-variety” “well-meaning” liberal friends probably feel genuine guilt simply because they are more well-off than many blacks, latinos, third-world people, etc, etc, etc. They naively seek to assuage their guilt by throwing taxpayer money into big government programs, hoping this will be effective in removing disparities without creating seriously negative unintended consequences (or simply wasting huge amounts of other people’s money).

Though sincere, this behavior is quite ugly in that it lays a guilt trip on all whites while inflicting costs (monetary and otherwise) on everyone in the hope that they, the liberals, might feel better — but they usually don’t since these programs almost always fail, thus engendering another round of the same.

At the opposite end of the spectrum are totally cynical machiavellians, those who simply exploit white guilt to advance their agenda and/or make themselves more powerful and wealthy. Sometimes they achieve all at once (viz Al Sharpton).

In the middle we find a wide variety of types motivated by guilt, self-loathing and other negative emotions, trying to mitigate their pain by advancing mass programs they hope will enhance their self-image, usually by championing the “downtrodden” against some imagined oppressor.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

Just think — if we’d never decided slavery was evil (and we were the FIRST and ONLY race to do so), then it would still be bucketing along as usual, and they’d have to find something else to bitch about.

That map was wrong as it colored Europe as having abolished slavery long ago. Western Europe abolished slavery in 1945 when the National Socialists were overthrown, and Eastern Europe in 1991, when the International Socialists were overthrown, yet I don’t see Europeans wailing about their history of slavery (with one notable exception, of course).

Sweden, who not once sided with democracies in WW1, WW2, or the Cold War? Poland? France (perhaps as the Battle of Algers spreads to Paris)? PRC (probably don’t believe in sin)?

After I retired I wanted to spend time helping the unfortunate. Which I did for three years. That time opened my eyes to the fact that there are many people who, for want of a better word, are lazy or maybe unmotivated, or clever manipulators who see ways to game the system. I realized that they didn’t need my help. There were plenty of NGOs, and government agencies ready, willing, and able to continue to enable their life styles.

The history of the U.S is quite recent. The defeat of the American Indian, our use of slaves, and acquisition of territories like Hawaii and the Philippines have all been pointed out as sins, which in the eyes of the America haters, can never be atoned for. However, the haters don’t mention unfavorably or accusingly the recent histories of South America, or Russia and the eventual USSR, or the crimes against humanity of Mao in China or Pol Pot in Cambodia. Why is that?

When looking at the much older history of Europe, the Middle East, and China you find examples of the same sins of conquest, acquisition of territory, and slavery. Such activities were the norm rather than the exception for most of human history. It is only in light of the post WWII era that the America haters (And they are mostly Communists, even if they don’t call themselves that.) have swung into action to hurl accusations for which there can be, in their eyes, no repentance.

Much like Calvinists, the America haters have erected a narrative that allows them to acclaim that they are morally superior to anyone who doesn’t accept their narrative. The well-meaning liberals, who haven’t taken the time to look at history and figure out how phony the narrative is, are gullible useful idiots.