white guilt

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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.
    • 1997, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, spoken by Max Cherry (Robert Forster):
      Is white guilt supposed to make me forget I'm running a business?

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