The modern twist is that they don't acknowledge the White Savior as noble or superior. The woke ideology depends on tearing down the would-be saviors, so they don't even get the full dopamine hit from altruism. It rejects the concept of elevating the savage
spiritually in favor of elevating him
materially, in terms of wealth and status. It's Marxist materialism with a shot of secular guilt.
We've commented on their use of "white bodies" and "white allies to the front" before. At some point I'm going to have to crack open Canetti's
Crowds and Power to do a proper social psychology breakdown of these BLM riots. But in this context, it's important because it reduces both savior and savage to mere
bodies. You aren't allowed to examine morality or the soul of the movement or its tactics; you can't examine the question of equality, lest you arrive at wrongthink.
Instead, you must be reduced to mere physicality, dumb actors who believe they are enabling the crowd. True equality is impossible to the intellectual; only physical equality is attainable, and it must be rigidly enforced. You
must believe the brute equality of the crowd is the highest form both savior and savage can achieve. And proving your belief requires a physical sacrifice.
(Which is a melodramatic paraphrase of the first 5 pages of
Crowds and Power, but meh. Doing the concept justice would require its own separate thread.)