Flav wrote on Jul 24
th, 2017 at 1:44pm:
French bashing seems to be a fad right now in Trumpland, apparently, The Trumpsident and our new clown don't like each other.
You might just be selectively noticing the French bashing. Trump's election has thrown off the fetters for a great many bigots of all stripes who were biting their tongues for years but now feel liberated and able to speak their minds.
The "A little story" thread where he claimed his guild broke up because he revealed the shocking news that he was black and yet apparently he had played the game with these people for years but never once heard any of them drop a racial slur, was closed.
Racism doesn't typically work like that, in my experience. I've met a few racists who will try to sneak up on the subject, just to see how I'll react perhaps. And I've met completely open racists. If I've ever met a person who is so racist that they would leave a guild in an online game where they never have to even see the other people, and yet is also so circumspect about their racism that it wasn't pretty fucking clear long before, I am unaware of that event. I'd give them a medal for being such an effective chameleon if I wouldn't prefer to just ignore them and let them wallow in their own pathos.
The thread where he threatened to sue was first closed but later deleted. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that a small company cannot be held to the same kinds of standards as a much larger company. And a privately held company probably again has a lot more freedom in their hiring practices than a publicly held one. I think that Taimasan is going to have as much success suing SSG as he would if he were to file a discrimination suit against a family owned Chinese restaurant which had only Chinese employees. "They have no black employees!" probably isn't going to mean much when they have only ~20 employees and couldn't possibly be representative across all ethnic groups even if they tried. But if he finds a lawyer who disagrees, I'd love to hear the details and enjoy some popcorn as he spends his money on what I think is going to be a fruitless cause.