That's how I'm reading it. I don't really understand if there is another way of reading it? The action we're talking about is terminating employees to the order of 11% of current employees. The possible changes to that action given a certain frame is basically just choosing who is going to be terminated. What other option is there?

I would actually prefer we be frank about this. Racist rightwingers aside, if they think it's better to lay off cishet white males before anyone else and if that is what they're doing, why not just come out and say that? It is either a reprehensible or a laudable act, without anything in between, and if you're doing that, you obviously think the latter. Are they afraid of right wing backlash? I hardly think tiptoeing around it this way is going to stifle that backlash.