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Jack Reid

Writers Take Shots at ‘SEAL Team’ Staffer Who Sued CBS and Paramount for Alleged White Heterosexual Male Discrimination

CBS series 'Seal Team'.

A lawsuit filed by SEAL Team script coordinator and freelancer Brian Beneker, who claims he was denied a writing position because he’s a heterosexual white man has attracted criticism from some fellow writers.

The complaint, levied against CBS Studios and its parent company Paramount, alleges that the plaintiff was repeatedly denied a staff writer job after the implementation of an “illegal policy of race and sex balancing” that promoted the hiring of “less qualified applicants who were members of more preferred groups.”

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