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I might be missing something in my own brain NLP processing - how is this viewed discriminatory?

"While managing Ghaderi, the documents allege Krishnakumar made "numerous discriminatory and harassing comments" such as "Take it easy, I have young daughters, so I know it's hard to be a woman with a newborn," or "You should spend time with your daughter," or "You should just enjoy being a new mother.""

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> I might be missing something in my own brain NLP processing - how is this viewed discriminatory?

The Register article presents those "discriminatory and harassing comments" without context, but given the context from the rest of the article, I could see them as being part of a construction that amounted to "you are a woman/mother, so you should stop raising your concerns/not pursue promotion/etc."

The comments were repeatedly made and complainant was the only mother in the organization.

It’s a targeted attack meant to neg the person into thinking they are worth less.

You need a really warped view of reality to see these three phrases as "meant to neg the person into thinking they are worth less"

wokeness in a nutshell.

those read to me as pretty veiled threats not to risk your job over this

I was disappointed the article included these phrases without more context, because they seem understanding on the surface level. But this was the same person who pushed to delay her maternity leave, so in practice he doesn't understand. A boss sending mixed signals of "work harder" and "take it easy because you're a mother" is pretty bad. I will admit it's extrapolation of the events on my part because the article confused me as well.

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