the fun part here is seeing interesting tradeoffs like a wealthy person of <Race-preferred> chosen over a poor person of <Race-tarnished> for some kind of wealth producing choice. Making a wealthy member of that group wealthier will pull up the average, but IMO the just choice is to help the lagging human regardless of their race.

It leads to weird outcomes too like the deaths of despair in Appalachia being "non news" because it largely covers a group we deem as "privileged".

A big part of the issue is reductionistic / simplistic thinking that wants to reduce the cognitive load of decision making by setting up only a few binary gates instead of having to do complex analysis on a case by case basis. This is normal for human brains to try and do.