With Jen Glennon no longer Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku, will DEI within gaming calm down?

[m0r1arty]

I don't think anyone is against the concept of diversity, inclusion and equity. However the way it has been handled has been more damaging to the concept than any external force could have achieved. With entire well thought out stories to a market baying for the product destroyed to be more against certain groups rather than inclusive towards all, is it time to calm it down on the big push which is only turning people away?

Now that the main stalwart media publication against gamers has lost it's editor-in-chief (Again) the same week at Alyssa Mercante backed Sweet Baby Inc. in a completely biased attack against the customer base for starting an informed consent consumer group do you think we could get the adults back in the room?

The ones that don't flamebait on social media for no good reason,, you know - the adults who know what money is and want to know where best to spend it.

[Living Death]

No such thing as equity when humans are involved. We are not all the same, we have strengths and weaknesses others might not share and we have our own experiences which make us different. We are individuals, not clones.

Equality, not equity.

[ФDeadEyeФ]

All of those things happen organically in civilized society, and I think we were doing pretty good to be fair. There is more racism and hatred now by multiple factors than there was 10 years ago. All of their "talking points" are hypothetical, have happened 1 in a million times, or is a twist of the actual truth. (Think Rittenhouse and the people who still believed he gunned down unarmed black people)

Forcing DEI is just a show of their hand; they don't want representation based on merit, they want representation because they are narcissistic and selfish, and will have no issue pulling the ladder up behind themselves.

[Balsover]

Kotaku has been trash for years, one person isn't changing it.

[TsudaTumiko]

Originally posted by m0r1arty:

I don't think anyone is against the concept of diversity, inclusion and equity. .

That's the entire problem of today gaming... We don't need forced inclusion

[Machuwery]

Originally posted by Balsover:

Kotaku has been trash for years, one person isn't changing it.

It's not about one person. The website owners demand that Kotaku workers stop writing "articles" and start making guides:

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1770916587174072563

Kotaku is almost dead, not even the owners can stand all the garbage that website released every day.

[好的_ricky]

Does this mean that someone like Alyssa would need to… play video games? And also… write to her audience without seething hatred and presenting rewritten history to suit her fringe political beliefs?

I don’t… think… they are…capable?!!

[Jaguaratron]

Kotaku is going to fold, its been on fumes for years, if you dont make money you cant keep the lights on and they dont make money and are never going to as an activist "news" site, the lunatics working there actually think what they do (lie and manipulate) is real journalism and are beyond delusional.

[Forgottendog]

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1770937485914468702
sadly no. according to this, the new owners are mad and have doubled down

[Corobanto]

lmao this is great news

[DarkFenix]

This is fantastic news, political hate-cults like Kotaku need to die out.

[Corobanto]

The staff of 7 are big mad that they have to write 50 guides per week. lmao the game journalist actually have to play games now!

[skeleton]

Originally posted by Corobanto:

The staff of 7 are big mad that they have to write 50 guides per week. lmao the game journalist actually have to play games now!

Nah they're just gonna scrape guides from other sites, actually playing the games and coming up with guide material is way beyond their abilities

[GtheMVP]

DEI can be make a game world, or tv/film, far richer, but it needs to make sense.

Take The Wheel of Time series for ex. In that world, we have people living for thousands of years in a cold/Scandinavian-like area (Two Rivers), with limited/medieval-ish travel options. Having the population incredibly diverse, skin color wise, with varied accents, is preposterous.

Having a bunch of white people and Japanese Asians in a primitive African-like setting wouldn't make any sense either.

A trilogy like LOTR can't be made today because these ESG parasites would force modern identity politics into it. This should be a golden age of film, tv, and gaming, but the cultural Marxists were allowed to run wild. Hopefully things return to some normalcy.

[Sunday Driver]

DEI is not significantly backed by or caused by the media or Kotaku. The gaming media are just the barking dogs, amplifying the noise. The real pressure and incentives are coming from Blackrock and trillion dollar financial institutions who said they want to "force" change and just openly say so on camera. This is why you'll see people further down the change gleefully talk about using "terror" in their speeches to push their DEI ideas (such as that now infamous SBI speech).

These problems of "who truly controls the purse strings" for everything in industry, entertainment and academia has been a problem for decades and it's great that now more and more people are starting to scrutinise things you can see the clear panic. You were all meant to just lay down, not notice anything and let them run over you.