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Iowahawk strikes again.

Thanks to Ellen Pao, Asian-Americans will no longer be saddled with the insidious stereotype of being bright, hardworking and competent.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 10, 2015

"Chairman" Ellen Pao Steps Down as CEO After Reddit Revolt

From Wired.com:

Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao resigned today after facing an all-out revolt on the site in the wake of the firing of a popular employee. ...........

Explaining her specific reasons for stepping down, Pao said, “Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining Reddit’s core principles.”

Bull-pucky. She "resigned" under duress for pissing off Reddit's user based. She has tried to "fire" the customers, based on her radical feminist ideologies, which aren't tolerated well in a free speech forum, such as Reddit.

Ellen Pao Out as Reddit CEO, Blames Site’s Users (i.e. The Customers)

From Breitbart's Big Journalism:

Silicon Valley Business Journal just reported that “Ellen Pao is resigning from Reddit after eight months of drama as interim CEO.”

Having kept her Reddit position despite  losing America’s highest profile sexual discrimination lawsuits against what she called Silicon Valley’s “boy’s club,” Pao was forced out for firing a popular female employee.
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Pao told media outlets that she was not fired, calling her departure a mutual decision because she disagreed with the Reddit Board about the site’s growth potential. But in a sarcastic parting shot at her critics, Pao told the Wall Street Journal that she won’t miss the constant criticism of her within Reddit’s user community, which dogged her throughout her unsuccessful sexual discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins and continued to grow over her involvement in the site.

So the Reddit user base, her customers didn't like her or her decisions, got enough support to get her fired, yet she's not at fault.

Millionaire Dotcom Adulteress says Women Too Weak to Negotiate Salaries

From the American Thinker Blog:

Ellen Pao is the Al Sharpton of sexual harassment. She sued the VC firm of Kleiner Perkins, claiming gender discrimination and sexual harassment. She lost a civil trial. To win in a civil trial, you don't need to show guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt," but merely show that it is more likely you are telling the truth than the other side. She couldn't meet even that loose standard, showing that her lawsuit was ridiculous. In fact, as the evidence came out, it turned out that not only hadn't she been discriminated against, but she had made millions there and had been given special treatment by one of the senior partners, and she still found time to have an adulterous relationship with another married partner.

But even though she lost this case, every time there is some claim of discrimination against women, her photo often accompanies such articles as if she had proved her case. Pao, a confused, nerdy-looking Chinese-American with glass lenses so thick they look like the bottom of Coke bottles, doesn't look like a rabid feminist, but she is.

She has since made news as interim CEO of Reddit, the misogynist, profanity-laced message board website, by declaring that new hires cannot negotiate on salary.

Ellen Pao, interim chief executive of Reddit, announced last month a ban on salary negotiations at the social media company. Her stated goal: to eliminate the persistent disadvantage that women have at the bargaining table.

What?

I guess they want Reddit to be run by beta males, feminists, and drones. Silicon Valley was discovered and grew due to the relentless self-starters and promoters, like Steve Jobs, Bill Hewlett, David Packard, and Larry Elison, not Ellen Pao.