Across the country, white people are being called on to use their power and privilege to lift up black people—by hiring them, promoting them, and in some cases actively relinquishing power. In a particularly bold reflection of this stance, Alexis Ohanian announced that he will step down from his seat on the board of Reddit, the company he founded with two other young white men in 2005. \n
Across the country, white people are being called on to use their power and privilege to lift up black people—by hiring them, promoting them, and in some cases actively relinquishing power. In a particularly bold reflection of this stance, Alexis Ohanian announced that he will step down from his seat on the board of Reddit, the company he founded with two other young white men in 2005.
Pao, a rare woman of color who has risen to prominence in tech, was brought in to run the company after a contentious and very public discrimination lawsuit with her former employer. Looking back at her hire, Pao was clearly given an impossible job. She was tasked with both cleaning up the rampant hate speech and abuse across the site and growing its user base, all presumably, with few additional resources beyond the absolution of providing a rare non-white CEO at the helm.
volunteer moderators staged a revolt, demanding her firing in a series of stunts that, at one point, includedRemodel Your Home With Wayfair's Sales of the Day
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