White saviorism is condescending and an attempt to assuage one’s own white guilt. It may look like an attempt to make things right, but it only serves to empower people with white privilege by making them feel better about themselves. It is actively disempowering to BIPOC and continues to reinforce the white supremacist ideas that BIPOC are only useful to the extent that they can be used for white interest (tokenism) and that white people are more capable of knowing what is best for BIPOC than they know for themselves (white superiority).
