>"so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs -- while a business necessity today -- were carried out through a Racist/Racially-Oppression lens."

Fixed that for you.. And oh boy would I not want to be one of this companies lawyers in the coming months and no doubt years! Yikes

The legal class is the big winner in these things - win or lose. Lawyers get paid

A predictable result of allowing (even encouraging) all groups but one to organize and lobby for their ethnic self-interest.

As I recall, Roger Taney said that was just wrong.

Isn't it illegal for membership of protected classes to be used as a factor in deciding who to lay off?

This is the era that in the future will be marked as having nothing of substance and saturated with loaded terms that don't mean anything.