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

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

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