I can't tell if you're playing devil's advocate here. I'll translate what the CTO was saying; "And in fact, for a very long time we resisted allowing people to

I can't tell if you're playing devil's advocate here. I'll translate what the CTO was saying; "And in fact, for a very long time we resisted allowing people to filter by race—we felt it just wasn’t appropriate." --> A significant portion of our users wanted to be able to filter by race, but we were afraid it'd create an internet shitstorm. "But then we learned about some use-cases from the other side—" --> So here's the semi-PC thing we invented to cover our ass, just to give our users the feature they wanted anyways without being the target of a social activism campaign. Regardless, they have since removed the feature.