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What (who) is guilt complex - definition

GUILT FELT BY SOME WHITE PEOPLE FOR HARM RESULTING FROM RACIST TREATMENT OF ETHNIC MINORITIES

White Guilt; Race guilt; Liberal white guilt; White shame; White guilt in the United States

guilt complex

(guilt complexes)

If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary.

N-COUNT [disapproval]

Guilt (emotion)

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT OCCURS WHEN A PERSON BELIEVES OR REALIZES—ACCURATELY OR NOT—THAT THEY HAVE COMPROMISED THEIR OWN STANDARDS OF CONDUCT OR HAVE VIOLATED UNIVERSAL MORAL STANDARDS AND BEAR SIGNIFICANT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT VIOLATION

Collective accountability; Guilt feelings; Guilty conscience; Lack of guilt in psychopaths; Group guilt; Lack of guilt of psychopaths

Guilt is a moral emotion that occurs when a person believes or realizes—accurately or not—that they have compromised their own standards of conduct or have violated universal moral standards and bear significant responsibility for that violation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_(emotion)

survivor guilt

A MENTAL CONDITION THAT OCCURS WHEN A PERSON BELIEVES THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG BY SURVIVING A TRAUMATIC OR TRAGIC EVENT WHEN OTHERS DID NOT

Survivor syndrome; Survivor's guilt; KZ Syndrome; Survivors guilt; Auschwitz syndrome; Auswitsch Syndrome; Auswitch Syndrome; Survivor's syndrome; Survivor Guilt; Survivor's Guilt

the strange feeling in the pit of your stomach when your coworkers have been laid off, yet you remain employed. simultaneously feeling selfishly joyous and sympathetically sorry that you still have a job when others around you don't.
bill experienced survivor guilt when karen told him she had just been laid off.

Wikipedia

White guilt

White guilt is a belief that white people bear a collective responsibility for the harm which has resulted from historical or current racist treatment of people belonging to other racial groups, as for example in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, European colonialism, and the genocide of indigenous peoples.

In certain regions of the Western world, it can be called white settler guilt, white colonial guilt, and other variations, which refer to the guilt more pointedly in relation to European settlement and colonization. The concept of white guilt has examples both historically and currently in the United States, Australia and to a lesser extent in Canada, South Africa, France and the United Kingdom. The feeling of white guilt has been described by psychologists such as Lisa B. Spanierman and Mary J. Heppner as one of the psychosocial consequences of racism for white individuals along with empathy for victims of racism and fear of non-white people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White guilt

Examples of use of guilt complex

1. "A guilt complex was created as if she was a traitor to the Great White Race.

2. The sentenced followed a plea from the woman‘s solicitor who ruled out jail because it could give her daughter, who had testified against her, a guilt complex.

3. I used to have a guilt complex that made me finish a book once I had started it, but as I get older I become less tolerant.