+1
I think it's just raul's way of saying that certain films become favourites less on their own merits and more because of some external agenda. Given the context, one can interpret Moonlight winning less because it's a good film and more because the Academy was trying to overcompensate for all the controversy they attracted thanks to #Oscarssowhite drawing extra attention to their notoriously homogeneous preferences. I contend that La La Land became the awards favourite since it played so heavily to those same preferences by being a musical about Hollywood - hell, of this decade alone, three Best Picture winners have involved Hollywood to one extent or another (The Artist, Argo, Birdman). Everyone expected La La Land to win because it was the most obvious choice, so naturally when it turned out that Moonlight won instead people were inclined to suspect it wasn't a "legitimate" win and was voted for out of white guilt or whatever.
It is interesting to read this as being the inverse of a couple of years back when the big favourites ended up being Boyhood and Birdman, except in that case it was the technically ambitious movie about acting that beat out the experimental coming-of-age indie.