White apartheid life involved large-scale denial of black suffering.

Evidence

To live as a white person in apartheid South Africa was to live a life of more or less large-scale, if never perfect, denial. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1557

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider theme of privileged groups’ structural ignorance of subjugated others’ conditions - echoes the ‘epistemology of ignorance’ literature (Charles Mills).