White guilt

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White guilt is the idea that white people who support policies to further racial equality are plagued by shame for crimes committed by whites in the past.

It is quite likely psychological woo.

The term is popular in the American right and is used to undermine white liberal support for the improvement of the status of non-whites.

The advancement of white guilt is a consequence of racist ideology. Since many people deny that racism exists any longer, any attempts to combat racism must be the result of white people feeling guilty, rather than combating the effects of institutional and historical racism.

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