If it were race-based that would be illegal. It sounds like what Twilio has done is ensure that their firing criteria simply don't encode prior organizational sources of racism, not that they decided "we will fire the white men".

One cited example is "last hired, first fired" layoffs - if your company has recently improved the diversity of its candidates resulting in a more diverse hiring pool, firing the newest hires would unwind that.

A company that wants to be racist might even deliberately choose the arguably-innocent policy which results in firings disproportionate to the makeup of the company. So this just seems to me like Twilio doing the opposite - ensuring that the firing criteria aren't a proxy for race

Reader mode in Firefox works around it.