Meaning of white saviorism | Babel Free

Definitions

The worldview that regards white people as saviors and other groups as needing to be saved by them.

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Examples

“These strike⟳ me as pretty apparent examples of White savior mentality. Perhaps I'm being a bit sensitive about this. I admit⟳ that the Chao charcters link⟳ to white saviorism is a bit weak, but when this is coupled the character change⟳ of Harold Livotny to Harold (fill⟳ in asian name⟳ here).”

“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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