(White male, minority religion) I read this just as "we were careful not to have our layoff unfairly impact minorities", not "we unfairly fired non-minorities"

(White male, minority religion) I read this just as "we were careful not to have our layoff unfairly impact minorities", not "we unfairly fired non-minorities". Unfortunately, reading the comments here, it sounds like most people assumed the latter, which I found quite sad.