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white guilt
[hwahyt gilt, wahyt]
noun
the feelings of shame and remorse some white people experience when they recognize the legacy of racism and racial injustice and perceive the ways they have benefited from it.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of white guilt1
Example Sentences
They responded by blaming his “white guilt” for “thousands more Austin Metcalfs.”
But beneath her white guilt she’s ultimately just as attached to the creature comforts of American wealth as the rest of her family.
I think many of them would be blown away because they’ve been fed a distorted caricature of feminism and racial justice as based in man-hating and white guilt.
“It’s about the West and the East and this idea of wealth disparity and white guilt in connection to Georgia,” he says.
It’s a performance of racial acceptance; these fans are literally buying into their own white guilt.
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