The city of Paris used to have a gay mayor and a gay man is the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world, so I'd say bigotry is largely disrupted already.
The apparently approved YC company attitude of utter naïveté about social reality anywhere other than your own back yard (consider the negative impacts of airbnb, for example) is distressing. As I read it, the New Yorker piece makes it abundantly clear that YC is unfit to be leading the changes it thinks are appropriate, "creating the future" etc.
What's the size of the overlap between YC-involved people and those involved with Black Lives Matter? I'd love to be proved wrong on this but everything I've seen suggests it's more or less non-existent, and if so, this is a massive elephant in the room and a disgrace. For the privileged people who think they have a mandate to create the future to be so apathetic when it comes to huge sections of society...
I recognize my comment is far removed from the OP.
The only sympathetic argument against minority rights that I know of comes from Dr. Claude Anderson, an African American economist and philosopher.
His theory is that Black people fought for affirmative action in the late 60's in response to the affirmative action that benefited White Europeans(e.g., Manifest Destiny, free land, slave ownership). But once Blacks had these new privileges, there was a conspiracy to dilute their rights by including more groups as minorities. Until 1970 Hispanics were classified as Whites, for example.
He argues that people would rather hire a woman, or rent their home to a Hispanic or gay person over a Black person which is why the category was broadened.
He has a great analogy that gives perspective-- "being a minority is a headache, but being Black is like having brain cancer". Yet we treat all these different groups practically the same and wonder why things are getting worse for African Americans.
