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Uber DEI Chief Officer fired for white supremacy.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Uber-Chief-of-DEI-fired-for-white-supremacy-sPi68qkH

Team Blind item, so here is a recap for those who don't have access to anything other than gmail.

Explanation of what happened:

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Btw, that's a white woman in that email with an Indian last name. Lots of questions on how that happened in there, but that's an aside.

The email that went out letting everyone know that the white supremacist has been fired:

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The white supremacist in question:

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More article text on it that explains all the BIPOCs crying about their oppression::

Uber has placed its longtime head of diversity, equity and inclusion on leave after workers complained that an employee event she moderated, titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” was insensitive to people of color.

Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive, and Nikki Krishnamurthy, the chief people officer, last week asked Bo Young Lee, the head of diversity, “to step back and take a leave of absence while we determine next steps,” according to an email on Thursday from Ms. Krishnamurthy to some employees that was viewed by The New York Times.

“We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session,” the email said. “While it was meant to be a dialogue, it’s obvious that those who attended did not feel heard.”

Employees’ concerns centered on a pair of events, one last month and another last Wednesday, that were billed as “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience” and hearing from white women who work at Uber, with a focus on “the ‘Karen’ persona.” They were intended to be an “open and honest conversation about race,” according to the invitation.

But workers instead felt that they were being lectured on the difficulties experienced by white women and why “Karen” was a derogatory term and that Ms. Lee was dismissive of their concerns, according to messages sent on Slack, a workplace messaging tool, that were viewed by The Times.

The term Karen has become slang for a white woman with a sense of entitlement who often complains to a manager and reports Black people and other racial minorities to the authorities. Employees felt the event organizers were minimizing racism and the harm white people can inflict on people of color by focusing on how “Karen” is a hurtful word, according to the messages and an employee who attended the events. A prominent “Karen” incident occurred in 2020, when Amy Cooper, a white woman, called 911 after a Black man bird-watching in New York’s Central Park asked her to leash her dog.

The concerns raised about the events underscored the difficulties that companies face as they navigate subjects of race and identity that have become increasingly hot-button issues in Silicon Valley and beyond. Cultural clashes over race and L.G.B.T.Q. rights have been thrust to the forefront of workplaces in recent years, including the renewed attention to discrimination in company hiring practices and the feud between Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Disney over a state law that limits classroom instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation.

At Uber, the incident was also a rare case of employee dissent under Mr. Khosrowshahi, who has shepherded the company away from the aggressive, chaotic culture that pervaded under the former chief executive, Travis Kalanick. Mr. Khosrowshahi’s efforts included increased diversity initiatives under Ms. Lee, who has led the effort since 2018. Before joining Uber, she held similar roles at the financial services firm Marsh McLennan and other companies, according to her LinkedIn profile.

“I can confirm that Bo is currently on a leave of absence,” Noah Edwardsen, an Uber spokesman, said in a statement. Ms. Lee did not respond to a request for comment.

The first of the two Don’t Call Me Karen events, in April, was part of a series called Moving Forward — discussions about race and the experiences of underrepresented groups that sprung up in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Several weeks after that first event, a Black woman asked during an Uber all-hands meeting how the company would prevent “tone-deaf, offensive and triggering conversations” from becoming a part of its diversity initiatives.

Ms. Lee fielded the question, arguing that the Moving Forward series was aimed at having tough conversations and not intended to be comfortable.

“Sometimes being pushed out of your own strategic ignorance is the right thing to do,” she said, according to notes taken by an employee who attended the event. The comment prompted more employee outrage and complaints to executives, according to the Slack messages and the employee.

The second of the two events, run by Ms. Lee, was intended to be a dialogue where workers discussed what they had heard in the earlier meeting.

But in Slack groups for Black and Latinx employees at Uber, workers fumed that instead of a chance to provide feedback or have a dialogue, they were instead being lectured about their response to the initial Don’t Call Me Karen event.

“I felt like I was being scolded for the entirety of that meeting,” one employee wrote.

Another employee took issue with the premise that the term Karen shouldn’t be used.

“I think when people are called Karens it’s implied that this is someone that has little empathy to others or is bothered by minorities others that don’t look like them. Like why can’t bad behavior not be called out?” she wrote.

Employees greeted the news that Ms. Lee was stepping away as a sign that Uber’s leadership was taking their complaints seriously.

One employee wrote that the company’s executives “have heard us, they know we are hurting, and they want to understand what all happened too.”


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:#marseyouroboros: :#marseylaughpoundfist:

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lmao someone tried posting it on leopardsatemyface but didnt meet the karma requirements :marseyrain:

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Stupidness like this will be the fuel used by people like DeSantis in justifying their efforts to marginalize the minority experience in America.

what the frick does this even mean

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"We're being rarted but this is somehow Ron's fault"

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Pretend you don't notice or the Chuds will win!

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"our side is acting r-slurred guys, we gotta distract otherwise repubs will swing voters"

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"The biggest consequence is that conservatives might sound like they have a point." Truly the worst conceivable outcome.

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desatan wants to marginalize the lived

experiences of america's minorities

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I'd love to here what "minority experience in America" they are talking about here and what specifically they can't do in Florida

The Twitter spaces thing with Desantis was revealing, they asked him about the multiple people saying Florida is banning kids from being taught about slavery because they banned critical race theory in Florida, but the bill itself specifically said the schools are required to teach about the oppression of black people in the historical context of America. It just stopped telling kids they are instant-victims just by being born black in 2023.

Nuance is dead in US discourse.

Edit: Apparently Florida has the 2nd highest amount of black people by US state after Texas... who woulda thought 2 republican shitholes have the most black people. Florida also ranks #1 of black owned businesses by state in the US.

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what specifically they can't do in Florida

obviously they can't walk down the street or learn about their history without being MURDERED!

they blindly believe the fantasy oppression porn other social media liberals tell them without actually looking in to anything. they just string together a bunch of words they've heard other people say because if they ever disagree with "desantis is literally a nazi who is trying to murder everyone who isn't a straight white male" they'll be kicked out of the social media liberal circle.

these people are exactly like the MAGA people they hate so much. blindly believing everything "their side" tells them about "the other side".

saying gay isn't illegal. teaching about slavery isn't illegal. florida isn't banning books. stopping disney from basically being it's own country isn't fascism.

i shouldn't rdrama this late at night because i end up making serious posts and it feels so weird to serious post on rdrama.

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saying gay isn't illegal. teaching about slavery isn't illegal. florida isn't banning books. stopping disney from basically being it's own country isn't fascism.

This is all true. Desantis has enough real flaws you dont need to invent shit, I dont personally like him pushing 6 week abortion bans (6 weeks is not long enough period) and I 100% agreed with the original "Dont Say Gay" shit because it was for grade 3 and down, for actual children, but he wants to expand it to all grades (12 and down).

Even if he has obvious problems, progressive Twitter just can't stop lying 24/7. Their bubbles feed this fantasy world where saying extreme reality distortions makes you cool and transgressive. Then they wonder why people become conservative when they nootice.

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It means that they might be doing the thing, but what's really wrong is that people expected them to and said they were doing it.

If "people" like right wingers keep getting it accidentally right in isolated cases then others might think there's a pattern.

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Nothing. These people just make a bunch of sounds all day that superficially resemble intelligible language but in fact is not.

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Welcome to social media

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As soon as I read her stupid crap about "I understand people felt pain" I just stopped reading. What a bunch of shit. If someone I knew told me they felt pain about something I said, I'd have to consider the meaning behind that. Like if I called my friend a worthless sack of shit I'd want to apologize for that. But nothing like that happened here at all, nobody is feeling any pain about anything, they're just griping about stupid shit because they can and they're useless and this is all they have. If companies would fire the entire DEI department, plus everyone who is filing complaints with them, they'd probably gain a lot from that.

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