Third World solidarity politics treated Western guilt-feeding deference as a diplomatic commodity

Evidence

His real offense was that he did not share the fashionable feeling of guilt, with its arrogant assumption of ultimate responsibility for all that goes wrong as well as right, and its patronizing tendency to treat smaller and weaker nations as smaller and weaker beings. A second and almost equally important offense was that he refused to wrap his meaning in layers of verbiage, but insisted on making speeches which were frank, direct, and, greatest crime of all, easily understandable. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1334

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Said’s Orientalism critique of how the West is expected to perform guilt, and to the broader representation cluster on how small nations were patronized.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘easily understandable’ speech itself was coded as colonial aggression inside the UN — frankness read as racism within a discourse economy of convoluted deference.