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My son recently sent me a post from a video gaming forum he frequents, and I was concerned enough to finally stop browsing this forum and actually make an account to post myself after I didn't find it anywhere here or in the gaming forum. It also finally gave me an excuse to read the rules just to be sure I wasn't breaking them with this post.
While this concerns video games I believe it's more politics than anything else, so I'm posting it here. I'm going to copy some of what my son sent me verbatim, but I have heavily edited the text in the image he sent me to remove any profanity. I try my best, but teenagers... and he didn't say any of it himself.
I triple checked the information on the public officials, and it's all available for the public. I didn't want to accidentally post anyone's private information, so I can promise you there's none of that below.
I wanted to spread this here in the hopes that others will stand up for what's right like John Gibson tried to do. This is bigger than him now, it's about all of us and our right to not be fired for holding a view that most of the country does! Over eighty percent of America believes there should be at least some restrictions on abortion, and forty percent believe it should be illegal in all or most cases. This is a religious belief, so it's protected by law.
I live in the South in the U.S., and have already sent messages to my Governor and Lt. Governor on facebook and left voicemails with both of their offices. I don't have that other social media website listed, but I encourage anyone who does to send messages.
My son exclusively uses gaming forums, so I wouldn't be surprised if no one here had heard about this. I certainly hadn't!
It took me a while and judicious use of MS Paint, but I managed to crop out an image of John Gibson's social media post that started that for everyone here to see.
If we can't even say this much without discrimination, then the law isn't worth the paper it's written on.
While this concerns video games I believe it's more politics than anything else, so I'm posting it here. I'm going to copy some of what my son sent me verbatim, but I have heavily edited the text in the image he sent me to remove any profanity. I try my best, but teenagers... and he didn't say any of it himself.
I triple checked the information on the public officials, and it's all available for the public. I didn't want to accidentally post anyone's private information, so I can promise you there's none of that below.
As you may be aware, John Gibson, CEO of the company that made the popular video game series Killing Floor (now former CEO), recently got fired aka "stepped down" for making a comment supporting a law outlawing abortion. A view shared by AT LEAST 40% of the nation.
What you may not be aware of is that this is patently illegal, and we can do something about it. The Georgia Fair Employment Practices Act (GA Code Sec. 45-19-20 et seq.) expressly forbids discrimination based on religion among many, many other things.
Now I know what you're thinking. "He stepped down, he wasn't fired!" We know that's complete nonsense, so will the Attorney General's office of Georgia, especially if we can get other republicans to politically pressure him.
But more importantly than that, another thing that was blatantly illegal was fellow game studio Shipwright Studios canceling their contracts with Tripwire Interactive over it. You cannot refuse to do business with someone due to their religious beliefs. You MUST bake the cake for Christians in Georgia, sorry(not sorry). They ALSO happen to be located in Georgia.
They'll only get away with this if we keep letting them do it. The law is on our side, it's time to use it.
Here is what I have done, and suggest you do - in order of usefulness.
Contact the Georgia REPUBLICAN Attorney General here (see form letter below if you're a lazy **** and just want to e-mail them) -
Chris Carr -
(404) 458-3600
https://twitter.com/georgia_ag
Log into Facebook
File a Georgia Consumer Complaint (You do not have to live in Georgia or even the US to do this).
Consumer Complaint Form
Contact the Georgia REPUBLICAN Governor and Lt. Gov (I know some will irrelevantly claim they hate Trump - this doesn't matter. This isn't about republican politics, it's about the right for religious people to not be discriminated against. Besides, they still say they're "conservative christians," even if they hate him). This is mostly to put pressure on the attorney general, Carr - neither of these gentlemen can do anything themselves, but they can certainly tell someone else to and actually be obeyed:
Brian Kemp -
(404) 656-1776
https://twitter.com/govkemp
Log into Facebook
Geoff Duncan -
(404) 656-5030
Geoff.Duncan@ltgov.ga.gov
https://twitter.com/GeoffDuncanGA
Log into Facebook
If you actually live in Georgia, also consider sending a message via Constituent Services or directly to your specific republican senator/rep. Or even your democrat one. Everyone else ignore this (or don't, if you're friends with one).
Constituent Services
Here is the contact info for Tripwire and Shipwright, you will need to file separate complaints for each, and if you happen to send a letter expressing your disapproval to each and informing them that you'll be filing complaints... well, that's nice too.
Tripwire -
Tripwire Interactive LLC
1775 Woodstock Rd, Roswell GA
770-993-5155
business@tripwireinteractive.com
Shipwright -
Shipwright Studios LLC
(couldn't find a phone #)
3500 Parkway Lane Ste. #400
Peachtree Corners, GA 30092
contact@shipwrightstudios.com
****** Form Letter, feel free to change this up and make it nicer. I whipped it up in a few minutes so I know it's garbage. I HIGHLY recommend you write your own spiel, this is just for what I hope are the few of you too lazy to do that:
Dear PoliticianNameHere,
I'm writing to you inform you of a company blatantly and illegally flouting Georgia's anti-discrimination laws in full view of the public square. Recently, John Gibson - CEO (formerly, now) of Tripwire Interactive LLC, a game studio located in Georgia, made a social media post coming out in support of the recent Texas pro-life law. Not only was he fired from his position for this post in clear violation of The Georgia Fair Employment Practices Act, but another entertainment studio in Georgia, Shipwright Studios LLC announced their cancellation of all contracts with Tripwire Interactive, another clear violation of Georgia law - they also did in full view of the public square on social media.
If we allow companies to flagrantly discriminate against Christians and other religious people in full view of the public with zero repercussions, why do we even have an anti-discrimination law at all?
I'm sending this to you in order to beg you to act, or at the very least enforce the law as it is written. If they can do this to John, they can do this to anyone.
Sincerely,
YourNameHere
I wanted to spread this here in the hopes that others will stand up for what's right like John Gibson tried to do. This is bigger than him now, it's about all of us and our right to not be fired for holding a view that most of the country does! Over eighty percent of America believes there should be at least some restrictions on abortion, and forty percent believe it should be illegal in all or most cases. This is a religious belief, so it's protected by law.
I live in the South in the U.S., and have already sent messages to my Governor and Lt. Governor on facebook and left voicemails with both of their offices. I don't have that other social media website listed, but I encourage anyone who does to send messages.
My son exclusively uses gaming forums, so I wouldn't be surprised if no one here had heard about this. I certainly hadn't!
It took me a while and judicious use of MS Paint, but I managed to crop out an image of John Gibson's social media post that started that for everyone here to see.
If we can't even say this much without discrimination, then the law isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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