White fear is anticipatory and dissociated from actual threat of harm

Evidence

Thus, white fear can be understood as something anticipatory, a fear just waiting to be expressed. It isn’t based in any actual threat of harm. Instead, the idea of black violence or crime does all the work. The mere possibility of danger is enough to motivate us to act as if we are in immediate danger. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 204

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise characterization distinguishing white fear from fear grounded in real present danger — a needed concept for the value-gap argument.