White TV Writer Sues CBS For Racial Discrimination

Supporters of leftist “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies claim that they only aim to correct past discrimination, but critics insist the agenda merely replaces one form of bias with another — specifically against White, heterosexual males.

America First Legal Foundation, launched by former Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller, has made it a mission to counteract alleged anti-White bias in the courts, including with a 2021 lawsuit asserting that the Biden administration discriminated against White farmers in the distribution of COVID-19 relief funds.

This week, the foundation announced a new complaint against CBS and its parent company Paramount Global on behalf of a writer who claimed he was repeatedly passed up for a job on the drama series “SEAL Team” due to the company’s unconstitutional demographic quotas.

According to the lawsuit, Brian Beneker had been the show’s script coordinator and became a freelance script writer in its second season. At that time, he alleged that his bosses told him he would need to step down from his job as a coordinator to continue writing scripts, adding that he was replaced by “a woman without any experience as a script coordinator” who “struggled to do the job” and resigned a short time later.  

When he was allowed to return to his prior position during the same season of the show, Beneker asserted that he was asked to confirm that one writer in particular “was or appeared to be Asian.”

Upon making another bid to become a writer, he claimed that he was told there was no position available only to learn shortly thereafter that a Black male with “no previous writing credits and little substantial experience” had snagged a job in the writers’ room. 

Attorneys handling the case point to a pair of rigid hiring goals announced in recent years as the basis for the alleged discrimination. 

ICYMI — Last week, we sued CBS for alleged anti-white discrimination. pic.twitter.com/J6uuzQK5MY

— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 3, 2024

During the 2021-2022 season, CBS executive George Cheeks reportedly mandated that 40% of writers on prime-time shows be “BIPOC,” or Black, indigenous and people of color. That threshold was raised to 50% the following year. 

Beneker, who is seeking more than $500,000 in damages, said a writer’s job was dangled in front of him for the next three years as he saw a string of individuals with less experience — but the right intersectionalities — receive the position instead. 

As the lawsuit determined: “Defendants have implemented an illegal policy of race and sex ‘balancing’ in the SEAL Team writer’s room.”