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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7868763" data-attributes="member: 3400">Certainly a game can offer a haven from relentless partisanship bickering. I don't think anybody would argue that's a bad thing, particularly when you're able to game with people who hold a variety of political views. That's diversity of a particular type... so what's the hang-up over other types of diversity?There really are some things that shouldn't been seen as particularly political, that nevertheless get intensely politicized (typically by opposition). The issue of inclusion and diversity strikes me as something that should be utterly apolitical. If a game company wants to make their product more attractive to more markets rather than cisgendered, heterosexual, white males by including more diverse representations of genders, sexualities, or ethnic groups, how exactly is that political? Why should it be more political than a car manufacturer wanting to increase the appeal of their cars by offering more color and upholstery options?The reality is increasing diversity is political because identity is intensely political because it has constantly been used as a political weapon to divide people and distribute privilege. When people have the privilege of having their own identity catered to, they don't like that being diluted by widening the identities catered to. As I see it, everyone's got to get over that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7868763, member: 3400"] Certainly a game can offer a haven from relentless partisanship bickering. I don't think anybody would argue that's a bad thing, particularly when you're able to game with people who hold a variety of political views. That's diversity of a particular type... so what's the hang-up over other types of diversity? There really are some things that shouldn't been seen as particularly political, that nevertheless get intensely politicized (typically by opposition). The issue of inclusion and diversity strikes me as something that should be utterly apolitical. If a game company wants to make their product more attractive to more markets rather than cisgendered, heterosexual, white males by including more diverse representations of genders, sexualities, or ethnic groups, how exactly is that political? Why should it be more political than a car manufacturer wanting to increase the appeal of their cars by offering more color and upholstery options? The reality is increasing diversity is political because identity is intensely political because it has constantly been used as a political weapon to divide people and distribute privilege. When people have the privilege of having their own identity catered to, they don't like that being diluted by widening the identities catered to. As I see it, everyone's got to get over that. [/QUOTE]

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