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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the Wall Street Journal Opinion page.

I'm Jerry Baker, editor at Large of the Journal.

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This week, we're going to talk about something that's been one of the defining creeds

of the progressive cultural movement, the kind of cultural hegemony that we've been subjected

to over the last decade or so.

And that's the idea of white guilt. In the US and the UK especially,

it's become just about axiomatic in the academia, in large parts of the media and the popular

culture more generally to characterize much of our history as being one of exploitation

by rapacious Europeans, Anglo-Saxons especially,

of ethnic minorities, both around the world and at home.

At the root of this claim is colonialism, the idea of colonialism, that is the seizure by force

of land and the subjugation of peoples in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin

America, the Caribbean by European empires. Colonization was sustained in part by the slave trade,

of course, which resulted in the wholesale transportation of vast numbers of Africans,

especially to the Americas. Now, no one would deny that colonization

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