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This is not how I understood the phrasing. Layoffs can include a mix of randomization, removal of non-critical areas or groups, and quantitative low performers (reviews). The initial output of the layoffs may have skewed in one direction incorrectly representing marginalized communities or maybe not. Twilio says they would attempt remove a bias to baseline.

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Removing bias is an objectively good thing. "You fired too many ________ people, and not enough ________ people" is not attempting to remove bias, it's attempting to hit a quota, virtue signal, or just being outright racist.

Without seeing internal company data (that a lot of the execs probably don't even have as it's across several teams), it's impossible to say for sure which one Twilio did, but "anti-racist" is going to be a dog whistle for a lot of people who will assume it is the latter.

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