Opinion ID: 4505255
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Heading: discriminatory hostile work environment

Text: “To establish a hostile work environment claim under Title VII, a plaintiff must show that the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of employment and create an abusive working environment.” Trask, 822 F.3d at 1195 (alteration adopted and quotation marks omitted). A plaintiff must “show the hostile treatment was based on [his] protected status.” Id. at 1196. Thompson has not pointed us to any comments or actions that were overtly “related to [his] protected characteristics,” nor has he presented us with evidence that the “alleged hostility was in any way motivated by a discriminatory animus regarding” his age or national origin. See id. Without either of these, his claim of a discriminatory hostile work environment cannot succeed. AFFIRMED. 11