Anheuser-Busch accused of racist, sexist hiring practices

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Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, is being accused of questionable hiring practices that “prioritized minorities,” according to a civil rights complaint.

A letter was sent to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by America First Legal (AFL) claiming Anheuser-Busch’s programs aimed towards hiring and providing scholarships are discriminatory, with women and minorities getting an advantage, the Daily Mail reported.

The group called out the company for using a “cloak of equity” to “proudly discriminate based on race, color, national origin and sex in their employment practices,” according to the letter obtained by the outlet.

One of Anheuser-Busch’s programs encourages only Black, Native American and Latino employees to apply for “”formal mentorship, executive interaction, and leadership development curriculum,” while a scholarship and internship program in partnership with the United Negro College Fund “supports 25 Black college students” interested in the brewing industry.

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“The evidence is that Anheuser-Busch is knowingly, intentionally, and unlawfully discriminating based on race, color, national origin, and sex with respect to employment and job training opportunities,” AFL’s letter accuses.

The complaint comes amid the world’s largest brewing company has seen its value plummet by billions ever since it partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

AFL, whose president and CEO is former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller, wants the EEOC to “open a civil rights investigation of Anheuser-Busch’s systemic and discriminatory hiring, promotion, and job-training employment practices,” the outlet reported.

Meanwhile, Bill Maher questioned guests Piers Morgan and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter about the Bud Light controversy and why many Americans are so angry.

Maher mused that perhaps it’s because “they’ve had an agenda shoved down their throat,” but acknowledged that you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

“In trans issues, there seems no room for debate,” Maher said. “You have to accept everything they say or you’re a bigot.”

Morgan argued that Mulvaney’s partnership with Nike, which included her modeling a sports bra on social media, was more problematic than the Bud Light ad campaign.

“It’s not just as simple as saying, ‘I am woman’,” Morgan said. “It is more complicated. A lot of woman are saying, ‘What is actually happening to us in this process?’”

Porter said the backlash was due to “male insecurity,” to which Morgan replied by wondering aloud whether trans rights “erode or destroy the rights of women to equality, too.”