Funny thing is that conversation is already happening right now, it’s been over 20 years since blizzard started up, over 20 years of more qualified people being passed over because they weren’t white guys over 20 years of the white guys promoting there frat bros and diving woman and minority’s out of the work place.
Yet you don’t see any of the white guys who were raised up not based on merit or talent having identity crisis’s, almost like it’s spoken bull shit boogie man.
All I ever wanted was the truth. Remember those words as you read the ones that follow. I never set out to topple my father's kingdom of lies from a sense of misplaced pride. I never wanted to bleed the species to its marrow, reaving half the galaxy clean of human life in this bitter crusade. I never desired any of this, though I know the reasons for which it must be done. But all I ever wanted was the truth.
You guys do realize that one of the main reasons that diversity initiatives were started is because white people have been historically favored (and regularly still are) over minority candidates that should be on equal footing with us, right? So these kinds of practices exist to combat/mitigate the very thing that you're complaining about.
But hey, I get it. I'd be worried too if I sucked so bad at my job that I had to lean on the fact that I'm white to carry me over another candidate.
I am so sick of the Western corporate/politicians FACADE they always build, thinking people are this stupid not to see the reality behind it. The whole entertainment industry starting from Hollywood, spreading to Disney and gaming corporations like Ubisoft, EA Games, and Activision Blizzard, is infested with this political wokeness disease. Many "white people" hire a bunch of people of color for some imaginable position to make their offices look rainbow just because they want to take pictures and compete on Instagram who of them is more woke and ready to be the next candidate to "save the world." They feel privileged to tell others how to live just because they have a bunch of money is sickening.
This "new" trend, though, proves how well the world is balanced, and every super power country/movement has its expiration date, and the clock is ticking.
It's about widening the net for recruiting, less about forcing hires. For starting positions, qualifications are low anyway and "best qualified" doesn't mean anything remotely like what the phrase would mean for a position like a senior developer or producer. No one seems to ever stop and think that hiring a cis white guy from another studio in this industry is also ignoring a pool of candidates who may be better qualified than who got hired. They never got looked at because the root of the problem is in recruiting.
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"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
Ion's VentureBeat interview laid this out pretty well:
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
This isn't about hiring for quotas. It's about making sure that the reach of potential hires includes more diverse candidates. If the best people for the specific job are bunch of white dudes because they're qualified then so be it. But if that also means that a few PoCs and, gasp, maybe even a few females get in as well... again because they're qualified then what, exactly, have we lost? It's not a zero sum game. Nobody is getting turned away from a job because of the color of their skin.
Let's assume guys, we're all jealous to not have such job. Imagine, you're paid something like 10k-20k per month just for your main achievement to be "I classified the Curriculum vitaes by race and gender for the HR to hire more minorities"
It's as if there was a Racism pole in your company, where you're paid being racist and nobody can even tell you anything without being branded a bigot/fascist/whatever.
What a society we live in
This is a chicken and the egg scenario. The games industry itself is pretty niche at least in broader terms of traditional career paths. The reason that a bunch of white dudes apply for jobs in the games industry is because a bunch of white dudes are the core demographic of the games industry. The way I read Ion's response is that they're trying to help combat that by broadening the scope of potential applicants to include people who may not have originally been interested in a job in the games industry. (Think a middle level management position where you'd only find out you'll be working for Blizzard after the second interview.)
I cannot give you specific examples but it's not unheard of that they recruit from other studios (who have an employee base that mirrors the problem) or hire on recommendation of friends of friends. I agree with you that education is a good place to start but that does not exclude what Ion wrote about in the quote: doing a more comprehensive job of recruiting candidates. Again, all of this focus on hires is mostly beside the point: recruit more widely, especially for entry-level positions where qualifications mean much less, and your workplace will diversify on its own.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."