Bo Young Lee, Uber’s head of diversity, held two events that focused on “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience” and “the Karen persona.” Predictably, this ruffled feathers, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and chief people officer Nikki Krishnamurthy suspended Lee.
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.
This is the key to why there was a backlash. No one likes lectures, especially two lectures on the same topic that anyone working in the DEI space should have known would cause problems.
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