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Some whites believe that neoliberalism is a pareto efficient outcome so that any improvement of black living standards will come at the cost of white living standards. Blacks have equal opportunity, so it's said, so that the current distribution of power and earnings is rational. Any money fo 'programmes' or affirmative action is picking the pocket of white taxpayers to raise up blacks.

If we're to get over the racial tensions in the US we need to actually understand and refute this naive view, not entrench it by mindlessly screaming racist etc.

For instance, replacement migration in the UK (my country) is seen as unquestionable. The immigrants will pay for social care & pensions for the old, and any racial tension needs to simply be ironed out by Mi5, home office, and 'community programmes'. The problem is that the entire debate is centred on racism, and not on the fact that countries with a more heterogeneous population have lower state spending due to reduction in tax morale. If you have no social unity, then there is no willingness to pay tax, leading to low tax govts. The simple fact is that BAME / immigrants will not pay taxes to look after old white people. So the entire rationale for replacement migration collapses. Few policy analysts care to discuss this because, like with race in the US, it's become a culture war issue detached from reality.