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Uber head of diversity reportedly put on leave after ‘Don’t Call Me Karen’ event
SF Gate ^ | May 22, 2023 | By Stephen Council

Posted on 05/22/2023 1:19:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Uber has put its chief diversity and inclusion officer on leave after she moderated a pair of “Don’t Call Me Karen” events that workers at the San Francisco-based firm said were insensitive to people of color, according to a report from the New York Times.

Lee billed the first event, in April, as a time to focus on “the ‘Karen’ persona” and hear from white women who work at Uber, the report said. “Karen” is a pejorative often used to refer to white women who feel the need to police people of color and/or demand special treatment in everyday encounters. The invitation reportedly said the event would host an “open and honest conversation about race” and be a time to dig into “the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience.” It was reportedly part of Uber’s “Moving Forward" series, a string of discussions about race that began at the company after 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests.

But workers, according to the Times' report, said in Slack messages that the conversation felt like a lecture about white women’s struggles and minimized the reasons that people find “Karen” behavior objectionable in the first place.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: communists; culturewar; karen; marxists; uber

1 posted on 05/22/2023 1:19:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s woke Stratego: blacks beat white women, no matter what.


2 posted on 05/22/2023 1:22:23 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“open and honest conversation about race”

that's the LAST thing the DIE crowd wants.

3 posted on 05/22/2023 1:23:38 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NohSpinZone

> It’s woke Stratego: blacks beat white women, no matter what. <

Ah, but suppose that woman is a Muslim transsexual? Then perhaps the scales are tipped the other way.


4 posted on 05/22/2023 1:29:51 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
- ... were insensitive to people of color -

It sure seems like just about everything is insensitive to someone these days.

5 posted on 05/22/2023 1:42:23 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She thought diversity meant everybody…


6 posted on 05/22/2023 1:48:24 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People named Karen probably feel it’s a form of aggression to use that term.


7 posted on 05/22/2023 1:52:02 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The invitation reportedly said the event would host an “open and honest conversation about race”

And that's WHY whites can't engage in conversations about race, because being open and honest about how you feel will get you fired.

8 posted on 05/22/2023 1:54:38 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

> being open and honest about how you feel will get you fired <

Yep. Here’s an old Soviet joke (Brezhnev era). We are there today.
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Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on farm collectivization?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.

Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the steel production goals?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.

Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the increase in food prices?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.

Foreign reporter: Don’t you have any opinions of your own?
Soviet citizen: Yes. But I don’t agree with them.


9 posted on 05/22/2023 2:09:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

It’s been that way for a long time now. Anyone stupid enough to be open and honest about racial matters deserves what happens.


10 posted on 05/22/2023 2:18:28 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This guy was the DEI officer? Did he know what his job was?????


11 posted on 05/22/2023 2:27:34 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Karens cover gays. Black cut Karens. Gays break Blacks.

Or some circle jerk thereof. Order doesn't matter just so long as they destroy each other.

12 posted on 05/22/2023 2:35:25 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She worked for uber and willingly, and knowingly, supported and provided for the purposeful abuse of drivers.

F@ck her. I hope she slips and falls over the banister.


13 posted on 05/22/2023 3:40:21 PM PDT by Celerity
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