A white woman can't sue for racial discrimination, Deen's lawyer argues

You don't have to be a minority to be offended by racism against minorities. They subjected her to their racist mindset in a business. She has every right to sue them.

What's whether or not you're a minority got to do with whether or not you were discriminated against on the basis of your skin colour?

she's been criticized for using the N word like 20 years ago...yet Lady GAGA changes the words to the National Anthem and she's praised a hero....and LIL Wayne stomps on our flag and nobody says anything...something wrong here

I think this whole thing is blown WAY out of proportion! I do not think a white/colored person should be able to sue another person of the same color skin on racism. That would be ridiculous.

So what do you say? Should a non minority be able sue for a hostile work environment due to the treatment of mintories in said work place even if the individual wasn't subjected directly to the discrimination and bias?
No, because she cannot show that she, herself, was harmed.

I printed out the suit as it was linked in another thread so I could read it when I had time. There are a couple things that I wonder about but then I'm not a lawyer so maybe I'm picking at inconsequential things. First I have to wonder why, if things were as bad as claimed, she stayed for 5 years during which time she never spoke to a lawyer or attempted to file a lawsuit. It can be said that she needed the job but on the other hand, fileing a suit at some point during those 5 years would possibly have gotten her just as much as it possibly will now plus fileing a suit while employed there rather than nearly 3 years after SHE ended her employment (Why didn't she file the suit immediatly after leaving her job?) there would have added weight to her complaint.
On page 7, she says that she asked if she was qualified to fill a position where she would manage both restaurants and was told yes but that the general manager and Deens sons would never allow a woman to tell them what they need to do. Yet the position of COO and Director of Operations (management of the general managers) was a woman, Theresa Fueger. In that position, wouldn't this woman be telling them what they needed to do?
On page 11, she says that when the position of Kitchen Manger/Chef was offered to someone, she offered to take the position under the terms offered the other person and was refused. But then on page 23, with no indication anywhere that she was given the position at any time, she says she held the position of Chef, Kitchen Manager and General Manager as well as performed the duties of administrative staff support. If she was working as Chef, how did she have time for all the other duties she claims she also performed? And why does she say on one page that she was not given the position, then later claims she had those duties?
I'm certainly in no way qualified to say anything about legalities (or running a restaurant) in things like this, but just reading the complaint, something seems fishy. BTW, I don't watch Paula Deens shows, not that I don't like her, I just have no real interest or feelings one way or the other about her or her shows.

how exactly does the California constitution come into play here?

how do you feel about the pledge being fucked with?
Quoting juju40:she's been criticized for using the N word like 20 years ago...yet Lady GAGA changes the words to the National Anthem and she's praised a hero....and LIL Wayne stomps on our flag and nobody says anything...something wrong here
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the allegations are that she used it more frequently. Deen's excuse is that she has used it when she spoke of an incident that happened over 20 years ago, not that it's been 20 years since she said it. She stated in her deposition she used the word when discussing the incident with her husband. They married in 2004.
Quoting juju40:she's been criticized for using the N word like 20 years ago...yet Lady GAGA changes the words to the National Anthem and she's praised a hero....and LIL Wayne stomps on our flag and nobody says anything...something wrong here
- samurai_chica
Bronze Member on Jul. 2, 2013 at 11:48 PMwhere are the people who were actually discriminated against?