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.
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
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.