Collective guilt extends to ongoing inequality one benefits from, not just past harms

Evidence

Collective guilt can be experienced for different types of harmful events. It is not limited to harm doing that ceased in the distant past. People can potentially feel collective guilt for ongoing group-based inequality that they had no personal role in creating, but that they do continue to benefit from. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 80

Categorization

• DEFINE: Scopes the collective guilt concept beyond past harm-doing to present-day benefit from ongoing inequality, useful for distinguishing guilt-generating conditions.
• XREF: connects to: Illegitimacy of group inequality is a necessary precondition for collective guilt. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 572; Collective guilt acceptance is a validated measure mediating inequality salience and reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 148

Broader Connections

• Collective guilt acceptance is a validated measure mediating inequality salience and reparations #expands (0.78) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 148