Comment on Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme
bogpunk@lemmy.ca 1 month agoThat’s the thing though, these biases against people based on their ethnicity and gender already exist, whether the people doing the hiring realize it or not. The best people may lose out on job opportunities because of these qualities. The whole point of DEI is to compensate for these biases.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Then that company just missed out on a qualified employee, and said employee probably dodged a bullet by not working for a company that would engage in not hiring someone based on their race or ethnicity.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Hi. You’ve gotten some very good responses from the community so I’m going to leave the thread up for now, but please be aware that pushing more will likely result in removal or a temp ban. Thanks.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Oh go off. “submit to the hive mind or get lost”
God damn authoritarians.
Skelemental@mastodon.gamedev.place 5 weeks ago
@PlainSimpleGarak @TheRtRevKaiser one white dude to what I suspect is another: be better than this. You get to say you don’t care because of many privileges you enjoy. Most everyone else has to care about this because of how it affects them. No one is even asking you to champion the cause but could you at least not actively be a dick about it?
alyaza@beehaw.org 1 month ago
take a week off, you were told the issue politely and this is not an acceptable way to respond
TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“Guess that minority shouldn’t work there then. It’s a good thing we have fair, gainful, and plentiful employment where every company with a hiring bias is perfectly balanced out by another company with the opposite bias. I sure am glad our perfect egalitarian society ensures that the minority’s kids are fed clothed and housed until they find work at an exactly comparable company with the same exact pay but hires minorities.”
bogpunk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This isn’t unique to any company. This is systemic and pervasive through our entire culture and society. Countering it requires education and effort, not ignoring the problem and experiences of those it effects. The status quo is not a fair playing field.