She wanted to hire black and indigenous women and is being attacked on social media by whites

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Less than 24 hours after announcing the opening of a job opening for which she would select only black, brown and indigenous women, screenwriter and podcaster Déia Freitas lost access to the email in which she would receive the resumes, after what appears to have been a wave of login attempts.

“It’s surreal. I thought it would be easy to announce. I wanted to make [o anúncio] in the form of a public notice, with all the detailed information”, he told leaf. This Tuesday, the name of the podcaster was hours in the most commented subjects.

There were even those who threatened her with prosecution for discrimination against men and white people. Before losing access to email, Déia Freitas had access to 60 resumes. Most, he says, were white people who, despite the ad’s specifications, tried to participate.

The podcaster says she could have advertised the vacancy without detailing the affirmative policy. However, he considers that it would be unfair to the other candidates who did not fit the profile. “We are in a scenario of many people without jobs. I didn’t think it was fair to give that hope. The person is going to make a resume, write an essay.

Despite the pressure, the selection exclusively for black, brown and indigenous women will continue. “I just need to resume the email. There’s no point in that, why do I have to open this vacancy for white people? I want to give opportunities now that I have this possibility”, he says. “I’m not taking anyone’s chances, but I want to give a chance to those who never have anything.”

Lawyer Thiago Amparo, columnist for leaf, said, in response to Déia Freitas, and later in his own publication, that the Racial Equality Statute allows this type of selection and that the accusation of opposing groups can represent bad faith litigation, a legal term for the judicial measure taken only to harm a person or company.

“Statute of Racial Equality, Treaties, STF [Supremo Tribunal Federal], MPT [Ministério Público do Trabalho] allow what Deia has done”, he said.

The vacancy announced by the podcaster is for script assistant. The four-month contract provided for remuneration of BRL 22,000, paid in installments of BRL 5,000, plus a bonus of BRL 2,000 at the end of the contract.

The ad had among the requirements: “cis women (those who identify with their gender at birth), trans women, transvestites”; “only black, brown and indigenous people”. It also said: “the vacancy also includes PCD women [pessoa com deficiência]” and “you can be a single mother, you can be married, you can be single, you can do cornmeal, you can be straight, you can be lesbian, you can be bi, you can do anything, this is not important for the vacancy.”

Criticism of the profile of the candidate she was seeking for the vacancy did not come from Bolsonarism – whom Déia Freitas opposes on the political spectrum. “They come from white people apparently on the same side as me. My post even ended up in a group of radical feminists, who accused me of wanting to hire men [em referência ao fato de o anúncio dar prioridade a travestis e mulheres trans].”

Professor Wallace Corbo, from FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas) Law, also used Twitter to defend the exclusivity of the vacancy to black, brown and indigenous women.

“The objective answer is: no. [é discriminação], due to the legal concept of discrimination. Article 1, item 5 of the Inter-American Convention Against Racism states that affirmative measures – such as the announcement of vacancies for black people – are not considered discrimination.” He also said that, in order to move in the opposite direction to racism in Brazil, it is necessary act for the repair.

In a tweet before announcing that the vacancy email had been blocked, Deia Freitas said the idea of ​​the disclosure was to be transparent about the amount of the proposed remuneration. “The result: free hate on Twitter, the vacancy printed on FB groups [Facebook] with people threatening me, people trying to hack the vacancy email on Google.”

In 2020, the retail giant Magazine Luiza opened a trainee program in which only black men and women were selected. The announcement generated reactions even from labor judges who considered the practice to be discriminatory.

Déia Freitas, from Não Unviable, says that many remembered the case after she announced the vacancy. “But I’m not Magazine Luiza, I’m a podcaster who works with crowdfunding.”

The Magalu program was carried out in 2020, concluded and repeated in 2021, the year in which the leaf also organized training for black professionals.

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