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Woman Fired for Fing Mexicans Comment Defends Remark as Normal Workplace Talk After Trumps ElectionAn 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 Trumps 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/
magicarpet
(14,154 posts).... 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 !
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Isn't that nice?
magicarpet
(14,154 posts)... admin decision at unemp office.
The racist must now appeal to the District Court.
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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.
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It was the ALJ who agreed with the bigot.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)At her unemployment hearing, Diers testified, It was 7 oclock in the morning, or 6:30 in the morning, and heres Lindsey, dancing and singing Mexican
Its, like, What are you doing? And then she said something about Cinco de Mayo. And thats 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, Im sorry, Lindsey, if you dont like what I said, but Im 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 its the president or the vice president, Diers testified. There has been talk on the floor: Some people dont like blacks, certain people dont like Mexicans, certain people dont like foreigners. We talk, and then we just move on.
ProfessorGAC
(65,054 posts)Then it's ok then! What an idiot.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Deplorable!
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)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)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. "
jpak
(41,758 posts)Right where she belongs.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)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?
mythology
(9,527 posts)magicarpet
(14,154 posts)... 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 !
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Isn't that some of this "free stuff" I keep hearing about ?
uponit7771
(90,344 posts)... hostile work place as long as Trump is in office and "everyone" says horrible crap about minorities.
Interesting
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)JDC
(10,127 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)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)And she thinks that a sound argument?
Ignorant POS.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)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.