Bob, an extremely wealthy man, starts up a charity, to give away free meals, clothes, and showers to the poor and homeless - but only if they're white, cis men.
You have the ability to magically stop Bob from forming this charity, with no negative repercussions to you. You:
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This scenario is one the many reasons that leaving the fate of a state in the hands of the wealthy is a bad idea. You could criticise both a government and an individual for discriminating like this but can only create policy to stop the former.
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As a privately funded and operated charity, he can spend his money how he pleases, and the mouths he's feeding means there's less demand on social programs so they can focus more on non cis-white-men.
Now, if he started trying to solicit donations from the public to fund this...
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Best case scenario, you can make other wealthy people compete with him and each help a different ethnic group.
I wonder how many atheists became effective altruists partly because they heard religious people are more charitable.
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Surprise twist, Bob is a gay transgender black man. Would it change anything?
