How Could They Cram So Much Racism And Sexism Into Just One Lawsuit Against Paula Deen?
How Could They Cram So Much Racism And Sexism Into Just One Lawsuit Against Paula Deen?
It seems -- it is possible -- that diabeetus queen Paula Deen is perhaps and maybe not the nice lady she pretends to be on her television program, "Cooking Hot Garbage With Paula Deen." Lisa Jackson is a woman who worked as a restaurant manager for Deen for so many years, turning around a failing business in such an accomplished manner that Deen's brother Bubba (because of course) fondly called her his "little Jew girl" (for being so awesome at money). She was danged good at her job, is what we are saying! But Jackson finally had enough with the getting manhandled by Bubba, who was always morning-drunk-on-bourbon-from-a-Styrofoam-cup and having him show her so much porn constantly and always getting told by him about how she should give blowjobs, and getting paid a fraction of what male managers a rank below her were getting paid for far less work and responsibility, and trying without success to shield her black employees from constantly getting called "niggers" and "monkeys" and being told they couldn't use the front door or the white bathroom or work in the front of the restaurant and SO MUCH MORE, and she complained FOR YEARS about all of it and nobody cared, and she finally quit and filed a lawsuit. All props to Lilly Ledbetter, but the Lilly Ledbetter Act that mandates equal pay for women should have probably been called the Paula Deen Act, if you could find a way to fit all her horrible racism into it too.
Here, have some Tuesday racism.
That was fun, right? There are like nine more examples of those, but we couldn't fit them all in one screenshot.
As for the sexism -- in addition to the porn and the sexual harrassment -- Jackson got paid less than male managers below her general manager rank, plus they got vacation, bonuses, and retirement, which Jackson didn't get because duh lady . When she asked for proper compensation, she was told Bubba would never countenance a skirt gettin' paid like the big boys. And Paula Deen knew about all of it, and Bubba's her brother, and her gross sons and sons' friends worked there too and pulled the same shit, like with the calling of the African-American employees "monkeys" and other such hallmarks of a racially transcendent workplace that could in no way be sued for a hostile work environment or basic civil rights violations. Go ahead and read the lawsuit. It's a corker! Paula Deen for president and stuff.
That's why it's a stretch. She claims injury due to the treatment of employees who are not in the same protected group ... but the racism could be ruled irrelevant to her claim. Or not... which is what makes this interesting. (Try to imagine that they were balls-out racist pricks, but gave her the full "Southern Gentleman" treatment... would she still have a case due to the hostile environment? If not, why is it relevant here?)
His grandfather dropped the "tl" sometime in the 1940s.