I mean there are reasons to be legitimately upset at whoever organized this entrapment party, but Pao is just the messenger. People reacting at Pao like they have is the exact reason more people don't open up about this stuff. She's just saying "this was public knowledge, yet this person was still allowed, isn't that weird?" and I think that's a perfectly reasonable question, despite the fact she asked it a decade after the fact.

The way many people are reacting, it's like going to a party where OJ Simpson shows up and then going "who allowed the murderer here?" and then everyone going "You knew he was murderer? Why didn't you say something!"