Of course there are self-reinforcing feedback loops - that's the sad nature of poverty traps. Once you get into poverty it's extremely difficult to climb back o

Of course there are self-reinforcing feedback loops - that's the sad nature of poverty traps. Once you get into poverty it's extremely difficult to climb back out, that's the issue I was describing - and to consistently get people out of poverty, external interventions are required (which not only benefits them, but society at large as poverty tends to make people economically unproductive and causes other social diseases like addiction and crime that affect the general public). I think the discourse around "Whiteness" is poisoned by liberals who can't understand systemic analysis and thus project critical theories into the space of the individual. I share your frustration with this - Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo are extremely counterproductive and barely understand the topics they have made careers out of. That's what happens when progressive ideas get sold to corporations by management consultants - and much of the liberal interpretation of these ideas comes from these same types of sources.