[dagmx]

You’re ascribing affirmative action to this when that wasn’t what was suggested.

The person in question called out bias and then asked what could be done.

That’s exactly the same as you suggested. The person I replied to then spun that out as reverse racism.

Which is a very common tactic to squash actual discussion on the topic of biases in the industry.

[philstephenson]

I agree with you though about the cries about reverse racism. Not helpful to the discussion.

But I also believe that when someone cries out bias or discrimination by some group because of underrepresentation or lack of diversity, they are implying that affirmative action is the way to solve it. Maybe I'm putting words into people's mouths there, but it's just anecdotal

[dagmx]

“They are implying” is putting words in their mouths like you say.

There’s a whole field of nuance in between “do nothing” and “affirmative action”. People deserve the benefit of not having someone else’s argument ascribed to them.