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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 02:33 PM Aug 2018

Woman Fired for 'F--ing Mexicans' Comment Defends Remark as Normal Workplace Talk After Trump's ...

Woman Fired for ‘F—ing Mexicans’ Comment Defends Remark as Normal Workplace Talk After Trump’s Election

An Iowa worker fired for disparaging Mexicans says she should get unemployment, arguing such talk is routine after Trump's election


Clark Kauffman, Des Moines Register Published 11:12 a.m. CT Aug. 15, 2018 | Updated 11:12 a.m. CT Aug. 16, 2018

Minority bashing has been "common" in Fairflield plant since Trump took office, judge says

An Iowa woman fired for disparaging Mexicans at work cannot collect unemployment despite her testimony that other employees also made derogatory comments about "blacks and foreigners" since Donald Trump became president.

Angela Diers filed for unemployment after she lost her job at Dexter Laundry, a Fairfield manufacturer of commercial washers and dryers, for telling a co-worker that she hated "f---ing Mexicans."

Iowa's Employment Appeals Board ruled that Diers' statements clearly met the definition of misconduct and disqualified her from collecting unemployment benefits. The board reversed Administrative Law Judge Beth Scheetz, who said Diers deserved unemployment benefits.

Scheetz had ruled that "since President Trump’s election, it was common for workers" at the plant to talk of hating African Americans and foreigners. The company couldn't single out Diers for misconduct, the judge had ruled.

Diers said she would appeal the board's decision to deny her benefits, which would move the case to district court.

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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/08/15/worker-cites-donald-trump-racist-mexicans-unemployment-benefits-denied-dexter-laundry-fairfield-iowa/952161002/

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Woman Fired for 'F--ing Mexicans' Comment Defends Remark as Normal Workplace Talk After Trump's ... (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
Angela Diers is a loud and proud racist... magicarpet Aug 2018 #1
And the Appeals Board agreed with her gratuitous Aug 2018 #2
No,.. the appeals board ruled against her and the first... magicarpet Aug 2018 #7
Whoops, misread it, you're correct gratuitous Aug 2018 #12
wow... more here Demovictory9 Aug 2018 #3
Oh, I See ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #5
This is the direction Trump is leading people. MineralMan Aug 2018 #4
He's not leading them anywhere maxrandb Aug 2018 #13
"He just makes them comfortable" - and emboldens others as well keithbvadu2 Aug 2018 #20
Up Shit Creek jpak Aug 2018 #6
Why does she need unemployment benefits? NYC Liberal Aug 2018 #8
Because it's easier than giving her a morality upgrade. mythology Aug 2018 #17
trDump said we are free to spew our hatred... magicarpet Aug 2018 #9
Unemploment benefits ? jaysunb Aug 2018 #10
hmmm, bookmarking where this goes. Sounds like the judge is saying its OK to have a uponit7771 Aug 2018 #11
She needs to pull herself by her metaphorical bootstraps and get another job. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2018 #14
My first thought : Bootstraps JDC Aug 2018 #19
Sigh... just Trump enables this shit. Initech Aug 2018 #15
Her argument is racism is cool now because the president said so? Solly Mack Aug 2018 #16
Yeah, it's normal...among white supremacists. Not among decent people. Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #18
Headline: Racism Leads to White Economic Anxiety Garrett78 Aug 2018 #21

magicarpet

(14,154 posts)
1. Angela Diers is a loud and proud racist...
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 02:42 PM
Aug 2018

.... and it is a violation of her First Amendment Rights to deny her the right to voice her racist viewpoints every second of every day no matter where she is.

What a trDumpette Racist Meat-head !



magicarpet

(14,154 posts)
7. No,.. the appeals board ruled against her and the first...
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 02:54 PM
Aug 2018

... admin decision at unemp office.

The racist must now appeal to the District Court.

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(From the original post.)
Iowa's Employment Appeals Board ruled that Diers' statements clearly met the definition of misconduct ......and disqualified her from collecting unemployment benefits.

The board reversed Administrative Law Judge Beth Scheetz, who said Diers deserved unemployment benefits.
(end snip)

Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
3. wow... more here
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 02:46 PM
Aug 2018

At her unemployment hearing, Diers testified, “It was 7 o’clock in the morning, or 6:30 in the morning, and here’s Lindsey, dancing and singing Mexican … It’s, like, ‘What are you doing?’ And then she said something about Cinco de Mayo. And that’s when I said I hated Mexicans.”

Diers testified that her co-worker said nothing in response.

“She just kind of looked at me,” Diers testified. “I go, ‘I’m sorry, Lindsey, if you don’t like what I said, but I’m not a Mexican fan.'"

Diers testified that she tried to explain that it was only “illegal Mexicans” that she disliked.

“We talk about everything out on the floor — whether it’s the president or the vice president,” Diers testified. “There has been talk on the floor: Some people don’t like blacks, certain people don’t like Mexicans, certain people don’t like foreigners. We talk, and then we just move on.”

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
13. He's not leading them anywhere
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:23 PM
Aug 2018

they were there long before Donnie Shit for Brains came along. He just makes them comfortable to spew their racist shit in public.

keithbvadu2

(36,814 posts)
20. "He just makes them comfortable" - and emboldens others as well
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 07:14 PM
Aug 2018

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
8. Why does she need unemployment benefits?
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:02 PM
Aug 2018

She should just pull herself up by the bootstraps, just like her racist party likes to advocate.

What are the odds that she hates “welfare queens” too?

magicarpet

(14,154 posts)
9. trDump said we are free to spew our hatred...
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:08 PM
Aug 2018

... we no longer have to be kind or PC. It is our right to hate any non-white person we choose. President trDump said to hate anyone you like,... just like he does. We only say bad stuff to their face. They are lucky we do not lynch them, or shoot them, or beat their head to a pulp with a hickory baseball bat and kill them.

I thought America was the land of the free - to fuck non-white/dark skinned people up !

uponit7771

(90,344 posts)
11. hmmm, bookmarking where this goes. Sounds like the judge is saying its OK to have a
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:21 PM
Aug 2018

... hostile work place as long as Trump is in office and "everyone" says horrible crap about minorities.

Interesting

Initech

(100,079 posts)
15. Sigh... just Trump enables this shit.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:27 PM
Aug 2018

Why are we even having a debate about whether or not he's a racist? There's an easy answer to that: YES!!!!!

Solly Mack

(90,769 posts)
16. Her argument is racism is cool now because the president said so?
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 04:17 PM
Aug 2018

And she thinks that a sound argument?

Ignorant POS.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
18. Yeah, it's normal...among white supremacists. Not among decent people.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 04:26 PM
Aug 2018

Her defense is mind boggling. That's how far gone they are. Totally cult followers. If the leader says it's good, it's good. No independent thinking, no judging, no decisions to be made.

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