Illegitimacy of group inequality is a necessary precondition for collective guilt.

Evidence

Because previous research (Branscombe, 1998) found that college men report freedom from fear of sexual assault as one of their gender group’s privileges, much of the essay focused on how women often fear going out alone at night, but men rarely worry about sexual assault. We assumed that sexual assault would be a relatively difficult form of inequality for men to justify; including information about this particular form of disadvantage helped ensure that inequality between women and men would be seen as illegitimate, a necessary precondition for inducing collective guilt (see Branscombe et al., 2002). — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 572

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies a boundary condition of collective guilt: perceived illegitimacy of the inequality is required before guilt can arise.
• XREF: connects to: Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 65; Collective guilt extends to ongoing inequality one benefits from, not just past harms — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 80; Highly identified group members minimize collective guilt by morally reinterpreting ingroup wrongs — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2278 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective guilt is felt when the self’s group illegitimately harmed another group #corroborates (0.88) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 0
• Collective guilt is distress over ingroup immorality without legal responsibility #qualifies (0.80) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 70
• Highly identified group members minimize collective guilt by morally reinterpreting ingroup wrongs #complicates (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2278
• Perceived group responsibility for inequity produces collective guilt #corroborates (0.76) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 441
• Ambiguity in harm perceptions lets dominant groups minimize inequality and ease their collective guilt. #complicates (0.75) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 592
• Guilt requires self-categorizing as a group member #qualifies (0.75) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 20
• Collective guilt extends to ongoing inequality one benefits from, not just past harms #qualifies (0.74) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 80
• Dominant groups are judged individually while subordinated groups face collective guilt. #complicates (0.73) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 105
• Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations #expands (0.72) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 65