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Uber’s Asian Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Hosting “Don’t Call Me Karen” Event Addressing Anti-White Racism

By Chris Menahan

Uber diversity chief Bo Young Lee has been suspended from her job for hosting a “Don’t Call Me Karen” event for the company’s White female employees to discuss the “American white woman’s experience” in dealing with the anti-white “Karen” slur.

From The New York Times, “Uber’s Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Complaints of Insensitivity”:

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.

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