In demanding that Lee Teng-hui resign as chairman of the KMT to take responsibility for the election defeat, Ping (herself a second-generation "mainlander") argued that the protest revealed an ethnic fault line in Taiwanese society. It was a venting of mass frustration on the part of one particular ethnic group, said Ping, noting that most of the protesters were mainlanders.
本身為外省第二代的平路，從台灣最敏感的一條神經──族群心理做深層分析。她認為，這次國民黨員要求黨主席李登輝下台為敗選負責，其實是一種族群的情緒發洩，因為這次選舉結果造成「外省人的某些失落感」。