Actually I think "White Guilt" is too narrow a concept to describe what is occurring and a more appropriate term would be Privileged Guilt. And what a plethora of minorities to project that guilt onto (everyone across the gender, racial and ideological spectra)!
GVSU brings a hypnotist to the Fieldhouse every year; he puts a group of college students under and a show basically manifests itself. One year, one trick (best word I think to use) was to have the participants believe they were listening to their favorite music. One young lady was "listening" to the Rent (movie) soundtrack. To give you an idea of her let me just say that this is in Dutch Calvinist country so everyone is blond and Conservative, so (not to assume but) she was probably not the person to have feelings (please watch the embedded video) about things until she saw Rent. I have to add, her singing was unprompted.
(Anyone who cites Billy Joel as an influence has bad taste in music (dot com).)
In addition to these offenses, it has become a touchstone for plenty of bad theatre. Speaking of: when did fanfiction become legitimate theatre?
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