Fox Business host John Stossel on Tuesday night lamented that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was not hired at clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch when she wore a headscarf to the job interview.
“This is why people don’t hire in America anymore,” Stossel said on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.” “Nobody can understand the laws, and if you hire someone in a protected class, you may be sued if you ever try to fire them. Or if you don’t hire them you may be sued.”
“These laws are meant to help the minority group, but they backfire,” he continued.
Fox host Bill O’Reilly seemed unfazed by the ruling.
“If I were the Abercrombie guy, I would have hired her with the headscarf,” he said. “What difference does it make? I would have started to sell headscarves.”
Stossel told O’Reilly, “You ought to get to hire anybody you want, but that’s not what the law said.”
Watch the clip via Media Matters:
Yes, John. No one is hiring in the United States today.
Employment laws are such a mystery.
Hey, Johnny, with that mustache, you might want to see if the Village People are hiring.
BillO, oddly, gets it. A&F can market head scarves.
Well Bill, when you get a job 99.9% of the time you aren’t allowed to pick and choose what you will be doing.
And BFD. Who cares if your saleswoman is wearing a scarf?
Oh wait… nevermind.
Stossel, of course, has no problem with former A&F CEO Mike Jeffries’s belief that ugly people shouldn’t be wearing A&F clothes, even though that means Stossel can’t wear that A&F sweater he got last Christmas.