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This article about the clothing company Zara and a $40 million lawsuit is from 2015:
MANHATTAN (CN) Zaras past scandals for clothing designs perceived as having Nazi imagery and racist slogans reflect a deeper corporate culture of bias, the companys former lawyer claims in a $40 million lawsuit.
Ian Jack Miller, who represented Zara for seven years as in-house counsel, accuses Zara USA and two of its executives of religious and sexual discrimination firsthand in an alarming 30-page complaint filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Zaras predominantly Spanish, straight and Christian executives including an ex-CEO mocked real estate developers as los judios (the Jews), exchanged racist emails of President Barack Obama wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood, bragged about their sexual prowess, and subjected staff to sexist and homophobic messages, Miller claims.
The lawsuit begins with a retelling of Zaras past scandals involving what some customers described as Nazi and racist imagery.
Zara cultivates a worldly and cosmopolitan image, but the company is notorious for selling products featuring racist and anti-Semitic images and messages, including handbags depicting swastikas, childrens pajamas resembling concentration camp uniforms (a product that, after an international outcry, the company said would be exterminated), necklaces containing figurines in black face, and a T-shirt proclaiming that White Is the New Black,' the complaint states.
In August 2014, Zara executives described the resemblance between the yellow-star pajamas and concentration camp uniforms as accidental. The clothing had been meant to look like a sheriffs outfit, executives insisted at the time.
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Initech
(100,080 posts)Either you are a Nazi, or you're not.
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(19,066 posts)Trump and his wife are blatant Neo Nazis.