Tone deaf management - Anonymous employee Trend Micro Inc. Employee Review

Consider a scenario where the Trend Micro COO is holding a large company meeting. Then he says something like ‘Trend is really great because look at how many blacks we hire. Now, all blacks come to the front of the room’. At best, that’s patronizing. At worst, it’s racist. Okay, it didn’t happen quite that way -- it was women instead of blacks. It is still patronizing and it is sexist -- and clearly inappropriate. How could an executive possibly be so clueless?