[neilk]

And in the other timeline, they're saying "Phew! Can you imagine what would have happened if we hadn't taken discrimination, bias, and harassment seriously back in the 1960s and 1970s? We would never have had the brilliance of Ricarda Feynmann or Jamal Watson."

Seriously though, I think Feynmann would have figured it out and adapted. Some say he was notably nonsexist when it came to teaching or talking physics, but horribly sexist when it came to everything else. Maybe he could just move some of that from one column to another.

Interventions should be appropriate. People are complicated. There are some high profile cases (usually involving "Twitter activism") that collapse all that complexity, which may be good for awareness or motivating institutions, but it's often bad for justice.