Robert
Rotondo
We could certainly speak of collective embarassment but not
collective guilt. This phrase was introduced out of a sense
of resentment by a wounded people intent on implicating all
individuals belonging to the group responsible for inflicting
the original injury. It's one of the ironies of history that
precisely that hatred which caused the inhumanity of the horror
inflicted should be then similarly returned to the offending
party. Albeit a comprehensible sentiment (natural, one might
say), is not collective revenge nothing less than hateful, resentful
and racist?
