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Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return
Deathspawner writes: To say that it's been a tumultuous month for reddit is an understatement. While multiple events have occurred in recent months that have caused an uproar, such as the banning of popular "hate" subreddits, nothing impacted the site quite like the out-of-nowhere firing of "Ask Me Anything" admin Victoria Taylor last week. Following that, other minor revelations surfaced, and finally, this past Monday, reddit CEO Ellen Pao came out from hiding to issue an apology. While her message instilled a bit more confidence in the future of the site, it wasn't enough. Today, it's been announced that Ellen Pao has left the company she joined last fall, and will be superseded by someone who knows what he's getting into: founder Steve Huffman.
wow reddit is going to flip out. I think she was handicapped from day one by her sexual harassment suit at KCPB. reddit definitely has a lot of internet libertarian types who hate anything they perceive as SJW, so for her to come in the door like this was tough. good luck to her, she's a really cool person and has been painted pretty bad in this experience.
Ellen is a person who brazenly attempted to abuse the gender inequality debate
Not to mention that she, herself, is a bigot that is openly discriminatory against other women. Basically, she's a hypocrite and will use any excuse she can to put others down when it means she has something to gain.
That's not what TwistedCubic was getting at. The error in SamoanBiscuit's posting was in assuming that it was hard to find such a perfect plaintiff due to illegitimacy, drug/alcohol addiction, and (implied) obesity. What he and you are missing is that social indicators for African Americans were better before the civil rights movement than after half a century of increasing government dependency and handouts. Programs intended to help African Americans were well-intentioned, but they actually have done a lot of harm.
Mayer ended work-from-home for Yahoo employees at the same time she built a private day care for her own kids next to her office. She also got all pissy when a man complimented her looks, then did a "come fuck me spread" for Vogue. She might not be a dooshcannon like Pao, but she's at least a dooshpistol.