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jrs99 on July 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

Certainly if you want to denigrate someone and you bring up their gender or ethnicity, it can be sexist or racist.

Khaine on July 12, 2015 [–]

but they aren't denigrating her because she is Chinese. They are denigrating her because they perceive her to be a terrible CEO, and Chairman Pao is a easy way to belittle what they see as her 'authoritarian' ways

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