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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9665765" data-attributes="member: 6779196">No, it used to be a pretty specific term before reactionaries co-opted it. Now it’s a dog whistle and a rhetorical tool that is vague by design, because to be specific about what it’s being used to mean would give away the game. Or, rather, it was that until like a year or so ago. The mainstream discourse cottoned onto it, so DEI is currently serving the same rhetorical purpose. I don’t expect that’s going to last much longer, but the grifters still need a little time to line up the next euphemism they’ll start using.That isn’t an actual thing that happens.No, other games didn’t perform as well as BG3 for reasons that have nothing to do with diversity - see my brief summary of Veilguard’s development for an example. Whereas BG3 had a very long and productive early access period and a ton of resources poured into its development and marketing. The same anti-“woke” crowd were making the same critiques of BG3 prior to its release, but it did well, so they stopped making those critiques and switched tactics to using it as an example of the mythical “right way” to do diversity.</blockquote>