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white guilt

white guilt noun: the individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people.

Noun

white guilt (uncountable)

  1. The individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people.
    • Is white guilt supposed to make me forget I'm running a business?1997, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, spoken by Max Cherry (Robert Forster)

Questions about white guilt

What does white guilt mean?
White guilt means the individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people.
What part of speech is white guilt?
White guilt is a noun.

Words near white guilt in the dictionary

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