There's a couple of interesting things here...

Firstly, Naomi is a person with a certain style - in both a personal and physical sense. She is not one to back down from a fight, but she clearly lost this one and still feels the loss pretty strongly.

Secondly, it's interesting because, when you strip it down a bit, it does appear to be a case of an Asian-American woman coming to the defence of an American company and white male writer/editor, unsolicited, in a dispute with a Chinese woman. It doesn't seem to mesh all that well with the other narrative of Sarah as an anti-white racist...