> That is very much a problem. You are not going to solve it by firing white people. This will just give more ammunition to populists. Yeah, well that's exactl

> That is very much a problem. You are not going to solve it by firing white people. This will just give more ammunition to populists. Yeah, well that's exactly my point. If firing white people isn't going to solve racism, then this isn't exactly the "last straw" before we end up in an upside society. We're still ice skating uphill. And really the populists don't need a lot of ammunition since they're always willing to invent grievances when they can't find a real one. I mean, you're doing it right now. I don't think we should be setting policy based on what the worst people in our society are going to be offended by. > So you are in fact saying that this is a good kind of racism, justified by History and the current socio-economical situation. Yeah, basically. You can debate semantics if you want but it's beside the point. The term "racism" generally implies not just racial bias, but bias born of animus. This isn't animus. There's no hatred directed towards white people. There's an implicit assumption at work that laid off white workers will have a much easier time getting hired somewhere else and data says that's true. Especially a place like Twilio that probably employs loads of college graduates with technical savvy.