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  1. #401
    Quote Originally Posted by Phaythos View Post
    Because for everybody to be treated respectfully and in the same way, people with clear advantages in life have to give up some of them. It is as simple as that.
    And as utterly despicable and revolting as that.
    Just imagine: legalized theft and oppression of the perceived "have much" by wannabe moral redistributors of humanity who know better.
    In fact you don't even need to imagine: this happened in the past under communism, and guess what - it ended in bloodshed, poverty and famine.

    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrst View Post
    That is the dumbest fucking take ever. There is a HIGH AS FUCK chance that the ancestors of African-Americans have had it really fucking hard, even going back 50-75 years. So no, 'colour blind' is just an easy way to say, 'I won't treat situations with care and respect, I'll be a dick to everyone'.
    Save me your "care and respect", I'll treat and expect the same from everyone up to the same standards.
    I will not single out some as "poor oppressed victims who need a hug" constantly.
    How patronizing.

  2. #402
    Quote Originally Posted by Stormwolf64 View Post
    And how will that improve planet earth? People are so fucked in the head these days. Pitying and sympathizing for eternity, will that help anyone? Maybe they can get a whip and take a crack at slavery? will that make their lives any better? No of course it won't. Moving forward hand is what has to be done. Blaming and guilting is a fools endevour and will continue to breed hate in equal measure to the good it attempts to do.
    It's almost like you have little to no idea what people actually want. Because you look at what a select few people do when it comes to campaigning for rights, and then use that as a sweeping generalisation. I believe in equal rights and progressive rights for all. What does that mean? It doesn't mean going to a white person and saying, 'YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLIGHT OF MINORITIES!' Fuck no. It involves something very simple, ensuring everyone has EQUAL opportunity. That doesn't mean handing out jobs or money or status just based on colour. It means providing opportunity without discrimination. And that's the important bit. MANY companies fail in this regard, because they think, 'Christ, I don't want to put in the effort of actually providing equal opportunity, so I'll just skip that and make token appointments'. That breeds resentment. Amongst everyone.

    Fostering a progressive society requires effort. It's why some of those who are comfortable see it as a waste of time, because why bother when their glass is already full? Then you have others who are afraid they'll lose out, so they would rather have it like it was in the 'old days'. And so on. It comes to the core question of, 'what's in it for me?' And for many people, if there's nothing in it for them or a sense of perceived loss, you can be damn well sure they won't work towards what is better for everyone. Which is why there's such a schism in society. Everyone wants to look out for number one, which would be fine if there wasn't such a huge disparity in the opportunity to be able to look out for number one.

    No one's asking for things on a plate. They don't want you to feel sorry for them. They don't want you to sympathise with them. They don't want anything magical. Just. A. Chance. To be able to use their skills or to be able acquire skills to fulfil their hopes, dreams and aspirations. But for those people who've never had it that hard, that just sounds like an alien concept. When it shouldn't be. Because struggles are relative. And it doesn't take a genius to know that when someone has it bad, empathy goes a long way. Regardless of colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation. Empathy is understanding that everyone wants to go somewhere in life, and knowingly or unknowingly putting a roadblock is dumb AF.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nimin View Post
    Save me your "care and respect", I'll treat and expect the same from everyone up to the same standards.
    I will not single out some as "poor oppressed victims who need a hug" constantly.
    How patronizing.
    I literally could not give less of a fuck what you think. Because you clearly don't understand what life is actually about. So carry on.

  3. #403
    Quote Originally Posted by pacotaco View Post
    USA is a good example of what happens when you only have right and more-right for generations. Anything that looks barely as a socialist thing is looked up as the demon.
    - Syndicates? NO! Better fight for you're labor rights 1v1 you vs an international conglomerate. I'm sure it'd all be OK. The best thing they have are Unions. They're close but they just fight for their associates (they're closer to guilds than to true syndicates).
    - Social security? Nah. Better to care for yourself and if you get ill and have no money to cover the treatment get ready to have a ginormous debt that would be paid until your grandchildren die, or die from that illness.
    - Public education? Bah. You don't need education to be a manual worker. What? You want to be an engeneer? Better be ready to be a slave from the bank that gave you a credit to cost the tuition.

    And the list go on...
    But yeah, beware of the Red Menace.
    I find it ironic that the tables have turned and that Hollywood is at the forefront of purging the rest of the US, what with the censorship and political persecution people had to endure in the early 20th century. To be fair, most of the people deemed to be far right nowadays are just slightly right-of-centre or just centrist people because the perception shifted drastically in the last 20 years. As it happened to be, most of the people who were deemed radical leftists in the first half of the 20th century were also mischaracterized. Someone who was deemed a liberal in the 90s could, in regards to some of their takes on everyday life, very well be classified as a conservative nowadays. People are being misclassified on a massive scale in my opinion. When you make a mistake from the get-go and can't even set the homework down on paper before starting to solve it, then there's little to no chance to find the right solution.

    The same thing applies to workplace culture; the standards have shifted tremendeously, some of it for the better and some of it for the worse. This is reflected in this latest Blizzard lawsuit.
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  4. #404
    Quote Originally Posted by Ivarr View Post
    This line of reasoning lends credence to the perpetrator's motives and reduces their agency. Society's responsibility is to help the ostracised build resilience, not to curtail society in its ostracisation.
    Everyone already acts at reduced agency due to society... Society shapes us all. I'm not saying that people who do heinous act shouldn't be punished. But society has to be careful not to create them.

    I mean, you can just listen to the most vile crimes and you will see a pattern that they are often unloved, shunned, bullied and never fit in and is having surroundings that actively push them away from fitting in.

    To me it's just common sense if you poke someone enough they will eventually bite back. Using that agency argument in this context is like throwing your hands up in the air and say "we can't do anything" and give up. Which won't solve anything.
    Can we say the same when it comes to schoolshooting? Or do you think we can actually help and prevent these things from happen?
    If we can, society does have an impact... If we can't then society has no impact and there's no reason to bother. But frankly.. Society plays a big role in who we become as a person.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nimin View Post
    Okay, acnowledged. Now get a move on, and stop crying about being a victim.
    Guess what: having a certain skincolor in no way proves that you, your parents, or your grandparents had it rougher than me, my parents, or my grandparents.

    Being "color blind" denies the victim card based on stuff that happened centuries ago to people who looked like them - hence why they hate it.
    We can and should be promoting minorities and underprivileged people into higher positions. Because it's historically rarely ever been a thing and that is entirely from discrimination. Even the minorities of today that are highly regarded like.. Neil Degrassi Tyson? Faced a fuckton of opposition and racism, in his OWN words. Nobody ever heard of a black scientist omg!

    The shift into this didn't just happen overnight on the internet. Something's got to get done because it's getting to be bullshit for too many people that their dreams can't be met because mom and dad were wrong skin color.

  6. #406
    Quote Originally Posted by zorkuus View Post
    Yes, I got that part 100%. But how would being more diverse and woke prevent people from doing bad stuff, without sounding like "bad behavior" is only a white man problem?
    For you to decipher that bit, you'd need to realise that diversity isn't something that involves putting the 'white man' down, no matter how much FOX News tells you otherwise. Because diversity isn't about exclusion. It's the precise opposite. And true diversity doesn't involve 'let's just give Becky the job cos she a woman AND gay'. It involves, 'Becky's CV looks as good as Joe's. How about we interview both, and identify who the very best candidate is for the job without any preconceived preferences, biases or requirements to fulfil a HR mandate?' Equal opportunity is just that. EQUAL opportunity. Not give something to someone because they're different and we need different. That's an easy tick mark on the HR mandate. That's wrong, that's dumb and that's destructive. And it's counterintuitive to diversity. Best person for the job, yes. Even if that means fostering a progressive environment to cater to the unique requirements of a person. And it's that bit that people struggle with. 'WHAT YOU WANT ME TO NOT MAKE DICK JOKES IN FRONT OF THE NEW FEMALE HIRE? I CAN'T DO THAT! IT TAKES AWAY FROM WHO I AM!' It doesn't, it's just respectful.

    Asmongold actually hit the nail on the head in a video the other day. He mentioned how he's automatically more reserved and careful around woman when he speaks, because he understands the value of boundaries and differences in what people are comfortable with and not comfortable with. The issue is that a lot of people are stubborn. And when they're asked to extend understanding towards something that is potentially at odds with what they consider 'normal', they rebel. They see it as a threat to their status quo. When it's not really, unless they see being respectful and potentially respecting the boundaries of others as 'woke shit'. It's really not, though. It's just showing an amount of compassion and care about how others feel.

    And before someone comes in and goes, 'OH BUT THAT FEMINAZI CALLED ME A TOXIC MALE FOR NO REASON'. I get that can happen. There are some people who make their entire identity about a particular viewpoint. Same as 'incels' and 'Trumpers' etc etc. They're not the 'radical left' as FOX likes to call them. They're just people with a severe case of identity crisis. And sometimes you have to just stage left and avoid them. 99/100 they're just posturing because they're insecure AF. I've experienced it too, and I'm progressive AF. I just kinda...walk away. Because I know who I am.
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  7. #407
    over a decade to make changes but only when stock prices start to dip do they take action.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrst View Post
    For you to decipher that bit, you'd need to realise that diversity isn't something that involves putting the 'white man' down, no matter how much FOX News tells you otherwise. Because diversity isn't about exclusion. It's the precise opposite. And true diversity doesn't involve 'let's just give Becky the job cos she a woman AND gay'. It involves, 'Becky's CV looks as good as Joe's. How about we interview both, and identify who the very best candidate is for the job without any preconceived preferences, biases or requirements to fulfil a HR mandate?' Equal opportunity is just that. EQUAL opportunity. Not give something to someone because they're different and we need different. That's an easy tick mark on the HR mandate. That's wrong, that's dumb and that's destructive. And it's counterintuitive to diversity. Best person for the job, yes. Even if that means fostering a progressive environment to cater to the unique requirements of a person. And it's that bit that people struggle with. 'WHAT YOU WANT ME TO NOT MAKE DICK JOKES IN FRONT OF THE NEW FEMALE HIRE? I CAN'T DO THAT! IT TAKES AWAY FROM WHO I AM!' It doesn't, it's just respectful.
    Who would have thought making people not be assholes involved so much politics

  9. #409
    And yet I don't see any of you tools complaining about other companies and industries with horrid working conditions with selfish CEO's....i.e. Bezos and Amazon. And I bet you all wear Nike........CHIna. If only were really serious about justice

  10. #410
    Quote Originally Posted by Kumorii View Post
    But society has to be careful not to create them.
    What measures would you use to impose this norm?

  11. #411
    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrst View Post
    For you to decipher that bit, you'd need to realise that diversity isn't something that involves putting the 'white man' down, no matter how much FOX News tells you otherwise.
    Let me stop you right there. I'm not some american fox goon. I'm not on the right. I'm finnish and pretty left leaning. I'm not who you think I am. So I didn't read the rest of your post, which I assume was just more strawman.

    I am sick and tired of behavior exactly like this. People jumping on the gun when they hear just one bad thing (which actually even wasn't the thing they think it was). Try to think beoynd strawmen McFly.

    Fuck you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OrangeJuice View Post
    over a decade to make changes but only when stock prices start to dip do they take action.
    Correct. Because money speaks louder than words. And it appears some investors have lost enough confidence in Blizzard to take their money elsewhere. It works rather like a lane of fruit stands: if I buy fruit from Bob the Bastard and all of a sudden he starts spitting in my face, I will take my money to another fruit stand. And I will tell others about the disreputable Bob on the way. People speak with their feet. Money moves with feet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magnagarde View Post
    I personally am not surprised that a white dude in his fourties and fifties, who has spent his entire life playing tabletop games, MMOs and videogames in general, gets promoted over Becky that was hired to fill a mandated hiring quota. This pertains to the game development department first and foremost.
    You mistakenly believe that just because someone was is of a differente gender/ethinicity that their skills would not be up to par. Which is not necessarily true. You are arguing that a company, tha verifiably pays less to women and minorities, that housed multiple sexual predators, that by multiple accounts, made it hell for women to work there, that this company, was promoting people fairly.

    I think that is an extremely hard case to make.
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  14. #414
    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrst View Post
    Asmongold actually hit the nail on the head in a video the other day. He mentioned how he's automatically more reserved and careful around woman when he speaks, because he understands the value of boundaries and differences in what people are comfortable with and not comfortable with.
    Asmongold is more careful because he knows he can get in trouble and his Twitch stardom hangs in the balance because of it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrst
    Best person for the job, yes.
    What if the majority of people who are the best for a specific job are almost exclusively white males.

  15. #415
    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrst View Post
    And true diversity doesn't involve 'let's just give Becky the job cos she a woman AND gay'. It involves, 'Becky's CV looks as good as Joe's. How about we interview both, and identify who the very best candidate is for the job without any preconceived preferences, biases or requirements to fulfil a HR mandate?'
    Then true diversity doesn't involve gender and diversity targets or quotas either as these targets and quotas necessarily create inequality of opportunity.

  16. #416
    Quote Originally Posted by Al Gorefiend View Post
    We can and should be promoting minorities and underprivileged people into higher positions. Because it's historically rarely ever been a thing and that is entirely from discrimination. Even the minorities of today that are highly regarded like.. Neil Degrassi Tyson? Faced a fuckton of opposition and racism, in his OWN words. Nobody ever heard of a black scientist omg!

    The shift into this didn't just happen overnight on the internet. Something's got to get done because it's getting to be bullshit for too many people that their dreams can't be met because mom and dad were wrong skin color.
    So long that "promoting" is merely giving them the chance, not the seat by default.
    "too many people that their dreams can't be met because mom and dad were wrong skin color" applies to everyone, white people included.

  17. #417
    I wish that the people at fault could be in trouble for the social crimes of being gross, ungentlemanly, and generally vicious rather than under the banner of cultural leftism that only cares about making social rules and enforcing virtue for white guys and not for anyone else.

  18. #418
    Quote Originally Posted by Sluvs View Post
    You mistakenly believe that just because someone was is of a differente gender/ethinicity that their skills would not be up to par. Which is not necessarily true. You are arguing that a company, tha verifiably pays less to women and minorities, that housed multiple sexual predators, that by multiple accounts, made it hell for women to work there, that this company, was promoting people fairly.

    I think that is an extremely hard case to make.
    You have to take into account that those women and minorities could potentially and largely be using their status of "victimized category" to jumpstart themselves. Not all, but many are potentially doing exactly this. I don't think that some employees having to listen to dick jokes or someone bringing a sex toy to a trip means there's a systematic problem with opportunity at Blizzard.

    I've never, ever met a woman that has done the same work as I have and gotten paid less. In fact, they are usually getting priviledged treatment at the workplace, by getting a more suitable working environment, time off with the kids and easier sick leaves with the head of department's approval and more.

    I'm not saying that a black guy or whatever can't be good at game development. What I'm saying is that gaming, stereotypically, is a white, dadbod dude's hobby from the last century and these people happened to be founding gaming companies all over the place when nobody cared about games except them. Eminem succeeded in hip hop, but that doesn't mean that black people aren't largely better at hip hop than white people. It's a cultural thing, it impacts exposure to certain hobbies and trends from early on in life and as a result has a lot of impact on the person's future interests and skillsets.
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  19. #419
    Quote Originally Posted by Ivarr View Post
    What measures would you use to impose this norm?
    Promote empathy and sympathy. The same foundations that have led to things like medical care, mental health care. Common act of goodness is also a sign of it. We have plenty of people doing charity work. Helping people less fortunate than others etc etc.

    When it comes to this I just think, no reason to be a dick, listen to anyones problem. Its better for someone to talk about doing bad shit to someone who listens and can help than let it fester... But if people are shunned or attacked for it, well... Big chance they will be quiet instead.

    When it comes to mental health being able to talk about the problems is imperitive to get better.
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  20. #420
    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrst View Post
    It's almost like you have little to no idea what people actually want. Because you look at what a select few people do when it comes to campaigning for rights, and then use that as a sweeping generalisation. I believe in equal rights and progressive rights for all. What does that mean? It doesn't mean going to a white person and saying, 'YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLIGHT OF MINORITIES!' Fuck no. It involves something very simple, ensuring everyone has EQUAL opportunity. That doesn't mean handing out jobs or money or status just based on colour. It means providing opportunity without discrimination. And that's the important bit. MANY companies fail in this regard, because they think, 'Christ, I don't want to put in the effort of actually providing equal opportunity, so I'll just skip that and make token appointments'. That breeds resentment. Amongst everyone.

    Fostering a progressive society requires effort. It's why some of those who are comfortable see it as a waste of time, because why bother when their glass is already full? Then you have others who are afraid they'll lose out, so they would rather have it like it was in the 'old days'. And so on. It comes to the core question of, 'what's in it for me?' And for many people, if there's nothing in it for them or a sense of perceived loss, you can be damn well sure they won't work towards what is better for everyone. Which is why there's such a schism in society. Everyone wants to look out for number one, which would be fine if there wasn't such a huge disparity in the opportunity to be able to look out for number one.

    No one's asking for things on a plate. They don't want you to feel sorry for them. They don't want you to sympathise with them. They don't want anything magical. Just. A. Chance. To be able to use their skills or to be able acquire skills to fulfil their hopes, dreams and aspirations. But for those people who've never had it that hard, that just sounds like an alien concept. When it shouldn't be. Because struggles are relative. And it doesn't take a genius to know that when someone has it bad, empathy goes a long way. Regardless of colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation. Empathy is understanding that everyone wants to go somewhere in life, and knowingly or unknowingly putting a roadblock is dumb AF.



    I literally could not give less of a fuck what you think. Because you clearly don't understand what life is actually about. So carry on.
    While I agree completely with you, there's a problem with people on those movements that say they want equality, but in the end they just want retaliation For example some messages in the like of "my ancestry was oppresed, I want a compensation". Man, what you want from me? I'm not responsible that some rich white dudes 200 years ago bough black slaves.

    The same thing goes by some people putting equality of opportunity on par with equality of results. That's why quotas are bad, you're putting someone ahead of others for some random trait, and that could create the opposite intent: it could drive people to think that the one ahead is there because of the trait instead of their worth.

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