Topic > Discrimination: Wiccan - 568

The article “A Wiccan woman says the TSA fired her for being a witch after a co-worker accused her of casting a spell on her” is a created article to inform the public about a religious discrimination issue within the TSA. This article is important because problems of this type are often covered up, and this piece highlights the presence of religious discrimination in this country, even in national organizations. This source was created by a journalist to generate revenue for MNSBC news. This creates some possible problems of bias, including dramatization of the story, to make it more popular, and the tendency to side with the writer's position on the issue under discussion. In this article, the woman in question is Carole Smith, a security guard at a major airport who identifies as a Wiccan witch. She has had numerous incidents of workplace complaints from those she works with, and she herself has filed complaints against her colleagues unrelated to her religion. However, all of these serious complaints came after his complaint of religious discrimination. These c...