A few thoughts from my never-humble opinion generating brain...
First - welcome to the USA - good 'ol "what can I sue you for?" country where people LOVE to play hide and seek for a lawsuit wherever they can get one.
Second - to bring in the whole fraternity/sorority reference was ludicrous. Talk about OUT of place - it was like, "um, we are being discriminated against, and oh yeah, could you mention the greek aspect for the hell of it..."
Third - this excerpt made me go hmmm....
"Another plaintiff, Angeline Wu, a Chinese-American, alleges she was terminated from a store in Costa Mesa, Calif after a manager pointed at a poster of a blond-haired, blue-eyed male model and said the store needed more staff members with a similar appearance."
My thought to this remark that was *allegedly* made was that the manager very well could have meant that she (assuming it was such - but hey, if it was a guy, there's nothing wrong with that
) was saying "yummy - we need more people who look like him". I know for a fact that I have had this conversation with employees in stores before. Heck, once, the set-up guy at Belks was removing a huge poster of a FINE looking Polo model - he said he was going to trash it, and the CLERK and I were about to go to blows over which one of us could take it home (in this case, the clerk was a guy - *too funny* to see us standing in there fighting over the poster
) So of course in the context it was presented it sounds all sinister, but it may not have been. And NO ONE mentioned the performance record of these people -- how do we know what they were doing at work?
I guess it boils down to this for me - I don't care if you are green, purple, or rainbow striped -- if you do your job, and you are good at it, then no one should have a problem with you. If it is a true discrimination case, then they deserve to sue and win their case. Unfortunately we have all seen and heard of PHONY discrimination cases -- my father-in-law had one where a female employee who DID NOT do her job, and was warned on several occassions, told him after he fired her "that's okay - I'm a woman and I will just sue you and you know I'll win" -- and walked out. Thankfully a jury saw past her little charade and didn't find in her favor. I just think that the world would be a much happier place if people weren't so freakin' sue-happy!!