A lawsuit filed by a SEAL Group script coordinator and freelancer who claims he was denied a writing place as a result of he’s a straight white man has already struck of chord with fellow scribes.
Many took to X to specific their frustration with freelance scribe Brian Beneker, who says within the grievance that he suffered by not being a part of “the favored hiring teams; that’s, they had been nonwhite, LGBTQ, or feminine.” He additionally known as out the “unlawful coverage” of range, fairness and inclusion measures.
Beneker, who has labored on SEAL Group since 2017 and earlier than that was a script coordinator on Sons of Anarchy, claims in 2019 that he questioned present showrunner Spencer Hudnut over why earlier showrunner John Glenn had employed a brand new male author when Glenn claimed on the time that “there have been already too many workers writers and there was no room for CBS to rent [Beneker].”
“Hudnut indicated it was as a result of he was Black,” the grievance says.
Whereas persevering with his job as script coordinator, Beneker wrote three episodes of the David Boreanaz-led sequence in 2019. He has one other one supposedly set to air because the eighth episode of the sequence’ upcoming seventh and ultimate season. His swimsuit is backed by former Trump White Home advisor Stephen Miller’s nonprofit America First Authorized Basis.
Many writers known as Beneker’s bluff by both citing UCLA’s annual Hollywood range report, or calling out his previous efficiency.
“I labored with this man in 2000–I used to be a author, he was a script coordinator and a severely odd duck THEN,” wrote Jorge A. Reyes (Queen of the South) on X. “He thinks by no means gotten a workers author job in 24 years as a result of he’s white? …. Now, in an effort to not face that fact, he hyperlinks up with Trump’s Minister of Data in a bullshit crybaby-ass lawsuit whose solely actual objective is as a cudgel towards still-underrepresented teams who STILL maintain traditionally low numbers of the obtainable jobs right here.”
“As a lady of colour, I do know that many individuals see me and mechanically assume ‘unqualified for the job’; till I can show in any other case,” wrote Helen Shang (13 Causes Why). “You’re not the default. We doubt you. So justify your self. It’s the boulder that I and others proceed to should push.”
Provides The Blacklist founder Franklin Leonard, “There’s quite a lot of genuinely hilarious stuff right here, however searching for a court docket order to make you a full time producer on the present you’ve been script coordinating is really unimaginable stuff.”
Beneker is searching for $500,000 in alleged misplaced wages, and “an injunction requiring defendants to supply plaintiff a full-time job as a producer.” Click on to learn Beneker’s discrimination lawsuit, which was filed final week in U.S. District Courtroom in California.
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