1. One of the hidden benefits of WASP privilege is you never feel collective ethnic shame of the "shande far di goyim" variety.
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2. Many Jews are genuinely mortified by Sterling's remarks, feeling kind of collective shame in his behavior even though they bear no fault
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3. I've had that same experience myself, feeling guilty & nervous whenever a fellow Sikh does something terrible.
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4. Or consider wave of shame/guilt/sorrow that overtook Koreans and Korean-Americans after Seung-Hui Cho's shooting spree at Virginia Tech.
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@Wicked223: "not just a Jewish thing - black people feel that all the time"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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6. This sort of collective mortification seems universal except, interestingly, among WASPs.
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7. When Conrad Black went to jail, I didn't notice any WASP Canadians saying, "my God, he's making us look bad."
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8. Vietnam fiasco was blamed on WASP elite ("Best and Brightest") but that blame not really accompanied by sense of group responsibility.
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9. After Wall Street crash of 1929, you didn't hear WASPs saying, "man, we really screwed the pooch on that one."
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10. WASP privilege (and more broadly white privilege) is privilege of being seen as an individual & not as a representative of a group.
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10. The WASP miscreant, the WASP ne'er-do-well, the WASP criminal has freedom to be an individual failure, not communal shame.
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11. Persistence of communal shame shows limits of "how Jews became white" model.
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