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Ellen Pao Drops Appeal of Gender Discrimination Suit
McGruber writes: Jeff Bezo's newspaper is reporting that Ellen Pao is dropping her appeal of the gender discrimination suit she lost against her former employer, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Pao sued KPCB in 2012, claiming that women were not given fair consideration in the male-dominated workplace. She also said that a male colleague with whom she had an affair unfairly cut her out of e-mail correspondence and upper management did nothing about it. She was fired soon after filing her suit. After a bruising month-long trial in which her personal character and work performance were repeatedly brought into question, a jury of six men and six woman ruled that there was no evidence of gender discrimination.
Her comment reads as if someone went through all candidates and rejected *all* those with opinions that agreed with Pao's, which is impossible - the jury is selected from a pool by both sides being able to dismiss a certain number of candidates until the pool fits the jury box. This means that while KP's lawyers could reject those with strong feelings about sexism existing in tech, Pao's lawyers similarly used her selections to load the jury with candidates that would be beneficial for her.
A jury is constructed from "peers", not from "people with beliefs that solely support my case".
She got a fair trial, she's just playing the "unfair" card because she lost.
Oh I'm sorry, Social Justice Warrior is a bit of a misnomer isn't it?
Is Social Justice Bully more appropriate, or how about SJS? Social Justice Sociopath?
She had no case worth pursuing.
Her character is related to why she lost, but not in the way you hope so much.
It's the reason why she brought suit in the first place. See the fable of the frog and the scorpion.