When you were/are poor, did you ever consider joining a hate group?

[loyalsister]

9. I was really struck by the points made in these articles

I think white people need to make more effort to understand the subtlties.

This illustrates just how defensive people can get in the face of accusations of racism: Not only did the woman who faced the criticisms genuinely feel like she was having a heart attack, but the white people around her believed it was totally possible she was. This is the reality of trying to have a conversation that challenges white privilege in America.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/12/16138558/charlottesville-va-white-fragility

Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to individual racial prejudice and the intentional actions that result. The people that commit these intentional acts are deemed bad, and those that don’t are good. If we are against racism and unaware of committing racist acts, we can’t be racist; racism and being a good person have become mutually exclusive. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-fragility-why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism-twlm/

My read is that she is understood to be a particularly good person because racism upset her so much. With that, she successfully reverted to white supremacy, probably without a second thought, and maintained her good person status.