Passes for Third-World Oppressors

It seems to [Glenn Reynolds] that events like [IRANIAN PROTESTERS KILLED] would get a lot more attention if they were happening in Iraq. "So why are they being ignored, now?" Glenn asks.

Glenn already pointed to Helen's review of Shelby Steele's extended explanation: White Guilt... being a Third-World imperialist oppressor means never having to say you're sorry. Only Western (white) imperialist oppressors have to say their sorry, and they have to say they're sorry even if they don't kill any demonstrators.


Third world imperialist oppressors can use unearned oil wealth to finance world-wide terror, and the West can only try to take the terrorists out one-by-one in a Long War, instead turning the War on Terror into a Short War by liberating oppressed minorities (Shia Arabs) living in the terror masters' oil provinces and administering the oil wealth to create infrastructure for the local residents instead of funding terror movements around the world.

Those are the rules when White Guilt molds the mainstream media's coverage, and the political class try not to upset the politically correct.