I disagree. The stats are there because the stats are there. I would like everyone to shift to a colourblind socialist model. Why? Well… let’s say black families are ten times more likely to be impoverished than white families due to systemic racism but there are ten times as many impoverished white families than black ones…. there are two arguments to be made.

You can make the argument that black families are disproportionately affected by racism and you’d be absolutely correct. But if the net result of doing this is turning all the impoverished white families towards the political right, you’d be shooting yourself in the foot when playing the long game.

Alternatively, you can make the argument that raising poor people out of poverty might be a good idea. This might serve to stop some of the dog-eat-dog mentality of what it means to be genuinely impoverished. In doing this you will help white people (boo) but you would also help black people (yay) and you wouldn’t have complicated questions like ‘Why are Chinese kids doing so well academically?’ to answer, because they sure as hell aren’t white.

Your general view is that anyone who disagrees with your particular brand of white saviourism must be racist — and it simply isn’t true. We are aiming for the same thing, we just have different routes there. You aren’t perpetually the white hat in a conversation just because you’ve self-asserted it — that’s not how morality works.