1978年出版的《白人意识:反种族主义训练手册》的作者朱迪思·卡茨对于她所说的自我放任的白人内疚感关注(self-indulgent white guilt fixations)持批评态度。她对于白人内疚感的关注使得她从她反种族主义培训的白人-黑人组转到全白人组。她也避免请非白人来教育白人,她说,因为她发现这会使得白人专注于获得接受和原谅而不是改变他们自己的行为和信念。
英语百科
White guilt 白人内疚感
White guilt is the individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from racist treatment of ethnic minorities by whites both historically and currently. White guilt has been described as one of the psychosocial costs of racism for white individuals along with empathy (sadness and anger) for victims of racism and fear of non-whites.