编者按：这篇评论文章是埃利·斯蒂尔（Eli Steele）系列文章的一部分，探讨美国及西方社会的白人负罪感。斯蒂尔是最新发布的纪录片《白人负罪感》（White Guilt）的导演。可在 WhiteGuiltFilm.com 观看该片。
Editor's note: This op-ed is part of a series by Eli Steele exploring White guilt in America and the West. Steele is the director of the newly released documentary essay, "White Guilt." See the film at WhiteGuiltFilm.com.
最近几天席卷法国的骚乱中，最令我震撼的画面之一，是南特市一所学校被烧毁的场景。围绕这所学校展开的学生街头运动，自称是在要求改善教育条件。
One of the most striking images of the riots that I saw sweeping France in recent days was that of a burning school in Nantes. The student movement in the streets around the school called itself a demand for education.
当时我正在浏览 X 平台上的动态，看到位于曼德拉中学（Lycée Nelson Mandela）外一个垃圾桶被点燃的照片。火焰蔓延到了建筑物的墙壁和玻璃门厅。当时仍有学生在教室里，所幸他们全都成功撤离。
I was scrolling through my X feed when I saw the image of a burning trash can outside Lycée Nelson Mandela. The flames spread to the walls of the building and into the glass entrance hall. There were still students in their classrooms and, thankfully, every one of them got out.
这所学校12年前建成时，耗资约6400万欧元，当时被誉为年轻人希望与未来的象征。如今，学校因维修而关闭，1700名学生暂时只能在家学习。
When this school opened 12 years ago, its construction cost approximately €64 million, and it was touted as a beacon of hope and possibility for young people. Now the school has been shuttered for repairs, and its 1,700 students must learn from home for the time being.
特朗普与沃尔茨将法国骚乱与大规模移民联系起来，数千人被捕——而这还只是其中一所学校。据法国教育部长称，自9月底以来，已有24所学校被烧毁或遭洗劫，约3万名学生数周内都无法重返课堂。超过6500人已被逮捕，其中大多数是未成年人。至少215名学生受伤，另有85名教师和工作人员受伤。一名16岁的少年甚至失去了视力。在拉西奥塔（La Ciotat），一名物理教师试图灭火时，被一名来自同一所中学的学生用汽油喷到脸上并遭到袭击。
TRUMP, WALTZ LINK FRANCE RIOTS TO MASS IMMIGRATION AS THOUSANDS ARE ARRESTED And that is just one school. According to the education minister, 24 schools have been burned or ransacked since late September, and about 30,000 students won't see the inside of their classrooms for weeks. More than 6,500 people have been arrested, most of them minors. At least 215 students have been hurt, along with 85 teachers and staff. A 16-year-old lost the use of an eye. In La Ciotat, a physics teacher was sprayed in the face with gasoline and struck by a student from his own lycée while trying to put out a fire.
许多媒体人士和非营利组织，如国际特赦组织，强调了学生们对改善教育条件的诉求，并批评了警方的应对方式，同时也承认部分示威者存在暴力行为。他们的诉求包括增加教师数量、减少班级规模以及改善校舍条件。
Many media figures and nonprofit organizations like Amnesty International emphasized the students’ demands for better educational conditions and criticized the police response, while also acknowledging violence by some demonstrators. The demands were for more teachers, smaller classes and decent buildings.
法国总理在抗议活动中青少年严重受伤后驳回警察暴行指控：“意外难免发生” 从法国街头传向世界的那些更令人震惊的视频中，可以看到一些教师特意走上街头，与学生们站在一起。在某些情况下，家长和工会成员也加入了进来。圣德尼市长巴利·巴加约科与封锁自己学校的学生们站在一起，并认为暴力有时可能是正当的，尽管他也表示反对暴力，并呼吁局势缓和。
FRENCH PM REJECTS POLICE BRUTALITY CLAIMS AFTER TEENS SEVERELY INJURED IN PROTESTS: 'ACCIDENTS HAPPEN' In the more shocking videos that flowed from the streets of France out into the world, there were teachers who made a point of standing with the students in the streets. In some cases, parents and union members joined in. The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, stood with students who were blockading their own school and argued that violence can sometimes be legitimate, although he also said he opposed violence and called for de-escalation.
当人们看到学生们在街头蜂拥而动、似乎不受惩罚的画面时，不禁要问：那个为世界带来了伏尔泰、卢梭、加缪和免费公立教育的文明，是如何走到如今学校在一场要求改善教育条件的运动中燃烧的地步的？
As one watches the footage of students swarming the streets, seemingly with impunity, one has to wonder how the civilization that gave the world Voltaire, Rousseau, Camus and the free public school arrived at a place where schools can burn amid a movement demanding better schools.
法国青少年骚乱出现爆炸性新转折，政府将矛头指向极左翼 从多个角度来看，这其实只是一个老故事——一个20世纪60年代后的故事。法国街头正在发生的一切，是根植于美国的“白人负罪感”模式的最新表现形式。
FRANCE’S TEEN RIOTS TAKE EXPLOSIVE NEW TURN AS GOVERNMENT POINTS FINGER AT HARD LEFT In more ways than one, this is just an old story. A post-1960s story. What is happening in the streets of France is the latest iteration of the White guilt formula that has its roots in America.
我的父亲谢尔比·斯蒂尔自20世纪80年代起就一直在撰写关于“白人负罪感”的文章。在他看来，“白人负罪感”并非个人层面的负罪感，不是一个人对自己所做的事情感到内疚。如今在世的大多数白人都没有拥有过奴隶或经营过殖民地。一个人又怎能对自己未曾犯下的罪行感到内疚呢？
My father, Shelby Steele, has written about White guilt since the 1980s. For him, White guilt is not personal. It is not the guilt a person feels for something he did. Almost no Whites alive today owned slaves or ran colonies. How can one feel guilt for sins one did not commit?
ELI STEELE：被贴上“种族主义者”标签的恐惧正在扼杀美国的言论自由。白人的负罪感是一种集体负罪感。左翼将西方的一切罪责——从奴隶制、种族隔离到殖民主义——都归咎于所有白人。他们将“白人身份”塑造为必须被彻底推翻的历史性邪恶象征。在此过程中，他们制造出一种恐惧：一旦被称作种族主义者或殖民主义者，就会失去道德权威。
ELI STEELE: THE TERROR OF BEING CALLED RACIST IS CRUSHING FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA White guilt is collective guilt. The left has condemned all Whites for the sins of the West, from slavery and segregation to colonialism. It has made whiteness a symbol of historical evil that must be torn down. In doing so, it has created the terror of being called a racist or a colonialist and stripped of moral authority.
为了逃避这种恐惧，许多白人试图用金钱换取解脱。但只有“被压迫者”才能赋予他人清白，于是双方达成了一项交易：“被压迫者”用受害者的身份换取权力，“压迫者”则通过顺从、各种项目、降低期望值，以及在压力足够大时保持沉默来购买清白。双方都得到了自己想要的东西，唯独孩子们成了纯粹的棋子。
To escape that terror, many Whites try to buy their way out. But only the "oppressed" can grant innocence, and so a bargain is struck. The "oppressed" sell victimhood for power. The "oppressor" buys innocence with deference, programs and lower expectations, and when the pressure is high enough, silence in the face of the match. Both sides get what they want, except the children, who are mere pawns.
过去与现在有所不同。20世纪60年代，人们确实遭受压迫；而今天，人们却被教导去相信压迫的存在。这些学生中的大多数人从未生活在殖民统治之下，但他们一直被灌输自己仍处于压迫之中。因此，我们本不应感到惊讶，但事实仍然令人震惊：这些抗议活动的一个主要特征，往往就是巴勒斯坦国旗。这面与加沙相关的旗帜，与南特市的班级规模毫无关联，却揭示了这场运动的全部本质。
There is a difference between then and now. In the 1960s, people were oppressed. Today they are taught oppression. Most of these students never lived under colonialism. They have been taught that they still do. So, we should not be surprised, and yet it is still startling, that one of the main features of these protests has often been the Palestinian flag. A flag about Gaza has nothing to do with class sizes in Nantes, and yet it says everything about this movement.
反以色列团体在10月7日周年纪念日于美国各地集会，高喊“起义万岁！”这一行为同时传达了两个信息。首先，这是一种指控。学生们被教导认为，以色列是实施种族灭绝的压迫者，而巴勒斯坦人则是无辜的受害者。当他们举起这面旗帜时，他们实际上是在指责法国与以色列如出一辙。其次，这也表明学生们自认为在这场局势中是巴勒斯坦人，因此继承了这面旗帜所象征的受害者身份。他们通过扮演受害者的角色，为自己赋予了清白和道德合法性。
ANTI-ISRAEL GROUPS RALLY ACROSS US ON OCTOBER 7 ANNIVERSARY, CHANTING 'LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA' It does two things at once. First, it is an accusation. The students have been taught that Israel is the genocidal oppressor and the Palestinians their innocent victims. When they raise that flag, they are accusing France of being like Israel. Second, it is the claim that the students are the Palestinians in this situation and therefore they are the inheritors of the victimhood that the flag symbolizes. They have granted themselves innocence and moral legitimacy through victimhood.
当圣但尼市市长声称暴力行为也可以被视作正当行为时，他其实只是在照搬“黑人的命也是命”运动倡导者的论调——后者曾将2020年美国各地发生的抢劫行为称作“赔偿措施”。倘若他站出来反对这些学生，并强调西方社会所倡导的责任与担当价值观，他定会被视为这一运动的“叛徒”。毕竟，受害者就必须永远扮演受害者的角色。
When the Saint-Denis mayor claims that violence can be legitimate, he is merely following the script of the Black Lives Matter activists who called the 2020 looting across America reparations. If he stood against the students and demanded the Western values of responsibility and accountability, he would be branded a traitor to the cause. After all, the victims must remain victims.
：这些封锁行动已从郊区蔓延至巴黎市区，甚至波及法国最顶尖的高中以及私立学校。这些私立学校的学生大多出身优越，从那些路障照片来看，其中不少是白人。只要这些白人学生做到一件事——与“邪恶的西方”划清界限，他们就能获得“清白无辜”的标签。与所谓“受压迫者”结盟，便是他们获得这种“清白”的代价。
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The blockades have spread from the suburbs into Paris, all the way to the most elite lycées in France, and even private schools. These private school students come from comparatively privileged backgrounds and, judging from the photos of the barricades, many are White. White guilt rewards even the White students if they do one key thing: dissociate from the evil West. Their reward for allying with the oppressed is innocence.
无论法国采取何种措施，结果都是失败。“压迫性体制”试图恢复法律与秩序的每一次努力，都会成为“受压迫者”新的怨愤理由。当有人坚称那所耗资6400万欧元新建的学校绝非忽视民众需求的象征时，此人便会被视为种族主义者而遭人唾弃。马赛一处公交站，一名护工劝阻学生不要破坏避雨棚，让他们去参加抗议活动，结果一名15岁的少年竟向她的脸上喷射燃烧的喷雾。
No matter what France does, it loses. Every attempt by the "oppressor system" to restore law and order becomes a new grievance for the oppressed. When one insists that a newish €64 million school is not a symbol of neglect, one is cast out with contempt as a racist. When a care worker at a Marseille bus stop told students not to smash the shelter and to go protest instead, a 15-year-old fired a flaming spray into her face.
事后，这名护工仍称这些学生的诉求“高尚且正当”。这些“受压迫者”永远不会放弃抱怨的权利——因为在“白人负罪感”的语境下，抱怨正是他们唯一的权力来源。而那些怀有“白人负罪感”的精英阶层，只关心自己通过与“受压迫者”结盟就能获得的“清白”身份。在他们眼中，自己的国家就是压迫者。于是，法国的衰落便不可避免了。
Afterward, she still called their cause "noble, legitimate." The "oppressed" will never give up the grievance, because under White guilt it is their only power. The White guilt elites only care about the innocence they gain from escaping the oppressor box via allyship. After all, they see their own nation as the oppressor. So the decline continues.
在南特被烧毁的不仅仅是那所学校。被烧毁的还有这样一种理念：一个国家无需先忏悔过去的罪孽，也能捍卫自身、法律与原则。白人的负罪感使得这种捍卫变得困难重重，甚至根本无法实现。正因如此，白人负罪感才成为美国和西方最具破坏力的力量。它让那些亲手建造学校的人，变成眼睁睁看着学校被烧毁却还将其称作“社会正义”的人。
What burned in Nantes was not just the school. It was the idea that a nation can defend itself, its laws and principles without first confessing to its past sins. White guilt makes that defense difficult, if not impossible. And that is what gives White guilt its power as the most destructive force in America and the West. It turns the people who built the school into the people who watch it burn and call it social justice.