Well, speaking as a person brought here looking to see if there has been any Word on the matter by He who is Tom, I must say that I am left with about the same feelings now that I had when I started looking into this.
Speaking as a Caucasian of mongolian decent (although, who isn't?) who is RPing a Mongolian of mixed blood (although, who, wait, I did that joke...), I must say that if this was me dealing with it in character, I might have some pointed words with our realm's diplomat.
That said, this IS a SMA continent, racism was historically prevalent (So is syphilis the French Disease? Turkish? Spanish? Anyone want to claim this for their country and/or race? How about a rousing discussion about Blood Libel?), and the phrasing was open enough to be debatable as to who was being racist IMO.
It's not something I would do, I think, but in the context of the rule and the environment, I don't think slapping Kas for this is fair. Thinkng less of Kas for it? Sure. Less of Kas's player? Fine. But punishment based on no actual breach of BM's laws or the guidelines for messaging (where racism is not really referenced and no swear words were used) is bluntly unfair.
