Why Hasn’t Hasan Minhaj Been Held Accountable for the Way He Allegedly Treated ‘Patriot Act’ Staffers?

Again in June 2020, Sheila Vee, a former producer on Patriot Act, tweeted about her time working with Hasan Minhaj (her Twitter has since gone non-public). “I’ve by no means been extra sad than after I was working at Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj,” she wrote, and said that her tolerance for the business is “very, very excessive.” Different South Asian girls who labored on Patriot Act joined Sheila and echoed her expertise. They claimed they have been gaslit and handled terribly. 

“Lots of people have requested me to speak about Patriot Act. I averted it as a result of every time I relive the expertise of being humiliated and gaslit, focused and ignored, I sink again into days of despair. Tweeting this can in all probability not assist me or anybody who has suffered,” Nur Nasreen wrote.

She expressed how far more highly effective Patriot Act can be if it really practiced what the present preached. “I’m wondering if it was definitely worth the psychological anguish I went by means of over my previous few months there. I want we nonetheless had Patriot Act. I additionally want they honestly practiced the progressive ethos they cultivated on display screen. Then they’d actually deserve all of your love,” Nur tweeted.

One other former worker who labored on Patriot Act got here ahead, tweeting, “I keep in mind crying for 2 days straight previous to giving my discover and feeling like a whole failure for not setting out what I had come to do. I spoke to the pinnacle author (now showrunner) about what went fallacious and bought a deluge of empty however placating phrases.” She added, “Since I’ve left, I’ve had time to assume and realized that that dialog was all bullshit. Those that know me know I’m not an indignant individual however speak to me about Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj? Lady, finest to sit down.”

Male author, Wil Kauffman, spoke up as nicely, stating that whereas Patriot Act introduced much-needed variety in addition to perspective, it additionally stomped on the very individuals it was making an attempt to uplift and promote. From inside. He said, “Whereas Patriot Act ought to be celebrated for the underrepresented voice it delivered to a blizzard white style, it also needs to be condemned. Nur is my good good friend who, amongst different WOC, confronted mistreatment whereas employed by the present. Completely no office is resistant to prejudice.”

What’s worse, is that there’s little or no public outcry over what occurred on Patriot Act or how Hasan Minhaj handled his workers. Throughout the identical time, Ellen DeGeneres was getting dragged for a way she handled staffers, Hasan’s former workers have been talking up about their work trauma — however the web did not appear as or prepared to concentrate. 

Seems, Hasan might not be a lot completely different than Ellen.