Playwrights Horizons sued over discount for POC- Page 2

[FLarnhill]

Posted: 12/23/25 at 12:27pm

quizking101 said: "I can’t imagine this holding any water, but in this America, where white grievance is a cottage industry, who knows?

Wanna know what's sad? America is more systemically class-based than race. Race issues were something invented by politicians and the most powerful so that the lower classes would fight each other.

[Ke3]

Posted: 12/23/25 at 3:17pm

Earlier this year the Nationals (DC MLB team) settled a 3 million dollar lawsuit that their age based discount was discriminatory and afterward ended the program. 

There are unimaginable losers out there but this one is of course far more sinister because of the person backing it. 

[pagereynolds]

Posted: 12/23/25 at 3:32pm

blaxx said: "Wouldn't any discount based on age, student status, etc be the same case? Why just race?"

Being a student is not a protected status the way that race and gender are. A discount code based on age would absolutely be illegal. That's why programs for people under 30 (or 35 or whatever) are programs and not discount codes.

The plaintiff here has a case if there was some sort of box where you had to check you were a person of color. If not, anyone could have used the code.

Updated On: 12/23/25 at 03:32 PM