I guess some folks are primarily concerned with not being a *ist.

I'm personally interested in upward mobility of people and groups who are marginalized.

Black people in the US have a much higher chance of ending up in prison. A racist statement? I can't really tell you, to be honest. But if that can be used to help provide upward mobility to that specific group I'm happy to state that observation.

Or you can just stand on a soapbox.

You seem to be ignoring a third possibility, which is stating things because they are true, not because of how your statements will be "used".

Valid point. I don't personally care about statements of truth unless they can be used toward some form of improvement. So that's my bias which you might have picked up on.

My own point of view is that I'm not infallible and therefore it is better to state what I think is true, and let people draw whatever conclusions they like, and take whatever actions they like, based on what I say.

I expect on averaging that stating the truth should be beneficial rather than harmful, because people with good intentions will seek to base their arguments and actions on the truth, while people with bad intentions in many cases won't care.

So ultimately I also only care about "improvement" but I don't define this in terms of my own ideology, because I could be wrong on many things.