“Guilt … is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since then it is no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication, it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness. …

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices.”

aus: Aude Lorde, zitiert durch: Emma Dabiri: What white people can do next, o.O.: Penguin Random House UK 2021, S.92.

Abb.: Poster Rex (gegründet durch Markus Lange und Lars Harmsen), 2014-

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