Simon Henry's comments about Nadia Lim

[Lilith7]

What an absolute prick the man is - difficult to believe anyone still holds such damaging & outdated views but apparently he does & doesn't mind airing them publicly. 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industr...m-comments

"Another KiwiSaver fund manager says it wonÔÇÖt touch shares in chemical company DGL after its boss made ÔÇ£racist and misogynisticÔÇØ┬ácomments about celebrity chef Nadia Lim.

Rich-lister and DGL chief executive Simon Henry told NBR that a photo of Lim in My Food BagÔÇÖs prospectus was ÔÇ£a little bit of Eurasian fluffÔÇØ. He said she was ÔÇ£showing some cleavageÔÇØ and showing off her sensuality to sell ÔÇ£scripÔÇØ.

Simplicity managing director Sam Stubbs said it would blacklist DGL until Henry had retracted the comments and ÔÇ£made amendsÔÇØ.

"If a chief executive says something like that, and you hold their shares you're endorsing the behaviour," Stubbs said."



https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...ining.html

"Lim said the comments are incredibly damaging for young Asian women. 

"What's so damaging is young people who hear these things over and over again, who then over time somehow start to believe they are less capable and have less to give and contribute than their peers. 

"That's why comments like this are so damaging. It's water off a duck's back to me, it's other people I feel really, really sad and disappointed for."

Lim said Henry could be using his position of power to celebrate diversity and inclusion but he's choosing not to. "