Shocking! Ok, not. This is how it works, and it has nothing at all to do with sensitivity or equality — it’s the “job wars” as noted on Clarissa’s Blog.
Both Jackson and Zhang are people of color who now see their careers hobbled in an industry that claims to be laser-focused on diversity.
I would laugh but it’s all so pathetic, and in extremely predictable ways. Diversity matters, but none of this is helping the goal of diversity. In fact, exactly the opposite: it is designed to drive people away with capricious demands and calls to “cancel” where the real but ever-unstated goal is to eliminate threatening competition.
This is the same thing that is happening in other ways in the dating market and with what #metoo has become, for instance. It will only get worse.