CBS Sued by ‘SEAL Team’ Scribe Over Alleged Racial Quotas for Hiring Writers

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• realcaseyrollins ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bizarre. Seems almost identical to this lawsuit, helmed by the same firm: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/nascars-diversity-efforts-accused-of-bias-against-white-men

  It doesn't make sense to me to launch to lawsuits in order to establish the exact same precedent. A gross waste of money if you ask me.

  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re probably forum shopping, they’ll withdraw if it ends up in front of the ‘wrong’ judge until they get one that was put in by Trump.

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes then they appeal to the Supreme Court in hopes that they’ll set a precedent nationally. This tactic is used all the time.

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine if a black person was explicitly denied a job because of the color of their skin and saying they shouldn’t sue because there’s already precedent that people can’t be discrimination against for skin color.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, from what I’ve seen there’s just no good way to enforce that companies aren’t assholes. If you force a percentage of racial bias then it’s just as racist as not having one (because they shouldn’t need it forced, still treating them differently). If you do nothing then it’s obvious what happens. If you test based on “is there at least one” then that’s tokenism. No good answers.

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That's not what I'm saying tho
• exocrinous@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Hello, I am a generic white man from the suburbs who likes Golf. I think I could contribute a unique perspective to your writing.”

  “Hello, I am a gay immigrant from China who speaks three languages. I think I could contribute a unique perspective to your writing.”

  If I’m looking for fresh ideas and to tell new stories, I know which of those two I’m hiring. Studio probably already has 5 identical white men who like Golf. If he wants to be considered for the job, he should go out and experience the world for himself. That’s where you get the inspiration for new stories and good writing.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except the only criteria was race.

    If you had a gay immigrant from Eastern Europe vs a gay immigrant from Asia and the candidate from Asia got the job just because they weren’t white, that’s where it becomes racist.

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So your just assuming since he’s white he likes golf.

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    • exocrinous@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, I’m assuming since he’s white and nobody wants to hire him as a writer he likes golf.

      I bet if he converted to paganism and became a druid, or if he learned a few languages, or if he got a bachelor’s in ancient history he’d have an easier time getting a job. Which is kind of exactly what these employers are saying. They’re saying “come back when you have something new to bring to the table”.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get it. These pasty racists yell “Why not hire the most competent?” Completely obvious that maybe they fucking did, and they weren’t hired because they suck, not because of their shitty worldview?

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then what need for racial hiring quotas exists?

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• flumph@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll preface this by saying I’m a huge supporter of eliminating discrimination in the workplace and have been part of many efforts to do so. I’m sure the plaintiff and law firm here are suing for all the wrong reasons.

  That being said, if there are literal quotas, that’s just a corporation doing the bare minimum to look good. Implementing quotas doesn’t eliminate bias in the hiring, promotion, and firing process.

  I know it’s not this easy in all positions, but we’ve already seen that “blind” auditions in orchestras increased the likelihood of women being hired by 11-30%. And there’s no doubt those women were more talented and qualified – they were only judged on their performance. That’s a much better outcome than requiring 30% more women and the biased hiring panel picking women based on looks, age, likelihood to take parental leave, etc.

  TL;DR: Quotas are a lazy way to try and fix bias in the hiring process. Work to actually prevent and eliminate the bias.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Brian Beneker, a script coordinator for SEAL Team, alleges in a lawsuit filed in California federal court Wednesday that he was repeatedly denied a staff writer job after the implementation of an “illegal policy of race and sex balancing” that promoted the hiring of “less qualified applicants who were members of more preferred groups,” namely those who identify as minorities, LGBTQ or women.

  Beneker is represented by America First Legal Foundation, a conservative group founded by Stephen Miller, a White House policy adviser under the Trump Administration.

  The organization has been filing complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against major companies, including Morgan Stanley, Starbucks and McDonald’s, over corporate diversity and hiring practices that allegedly run afoul of civil rights laws.

  Although the ruling is not directly applicable to companies, which are governed by a separate set of federal and state anti-discrimination laws that do not allow employers to consider race in hiring decisions, several legal experts told The Hollywood Reporter to expect a surge of reverse discrimination lawsuits challenging diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

  In a 2022 interview, CBS Entertainment Group chief executive George Cheeks allegedly said he set a goal that all writers rooms on the network’s primetime series be made up of at least 40 percent minorities for the 2021-22 season.

  The Supreme Court’s ruling could implicate race-conscious corporate DEI initiatives from providing race-restricted access to mentoring, internship or training programs to tying executive or employee compensation to the company achieving certain demographic targets.

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