white saviorism
nounEtymology
From white savior + -ism.
Definitions
The worldview that regards white people as saviors and other groups as needing to be…
The worldview that regards white people as saviors and other groups as needing to be saved by them.
- White saviorism is a form of false generosity; it maintains and embodies white supremacy; it frames the white outsider as the savior and hero and the people of color as too oppressed, too downtrodden, too powerless to help themselves.
- White saviorism reinforces the goodness of whites by arguing that whites must lift up the Other from their state of savagery. […] In these cases, white saviorism seeks to rescue communities of color from themselves and their nonwhiteness.
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