[oldmanjay]

Is it racist to acknowledge that Ellen Pao is of Chinese ancestry? I don't get how but I don't get a lot of the modern sensitivities.

[jrs99]

Certainly if you want to denigrate someone and you bring up their gender or ethnicity, it can be sexist or racist.

[Khaine]

but they aren't denigrating her because she is Chinese. They are denigrating her because they perceive her to be a terrible CEO, and Chairman Pao is a easy way to belittle what they see as her 'authoritarian' ways