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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OblivionDrive" data-source="post: 8075330" data-attributes="member: 7020101">You expressed yourself fine. It feels more like a willful misreading of the thing to me.You said "So, when choosing a team with one of the goals being diversity, one has to be able to look past one's own assumptions and "soft" racism and not only look for who stands out as the best, but maybe who has great potential but hasn't had the best opportunities yet, or hasn't been recognized yet, or whose work has just the...something that you're looking for." The emphasis on those two words is what's being ignored.The short version is basically, "If all other things are equal, going with a choice that makes your team's viewpoint more diverse is the way to go." It's not as if there's some etched-in-stone objective holy metric about quality of someone's work that you can judge one work vs another on. Nobody is putting Designer 1 and Designer 2's work on a scale and weighing it vs whatever the designerly version of the Feather of Ma'at is and casting the lesser one into the mouth of a waiting beast.There will always be a degree of subjectivity in picking who you think is most qualified. And in those situations? If I have, say, ten positions I need filled and have 30 candidates who I feel are all around the same level of skill and quality? I'm gonna lean more heavily on making sure non-cishet white males are represented on my team. Does this mean no cishet white men will be hired? Of course not! But it's also not gonna mean that the team will be 90% white guys like it's historically been throughout tabletop's history. Because if we want to get to that mythical future meritocracy that some very vocal people always tout as the SOLE REASON ANYONE EVER SHOULD BE HIRED, you don't get to do that without getting experience under the belts of people who historically get ignored in favor of the entrenched old guard. That's how systemic change gets made - it starts as small moves on a local level and works its way up the chain.TL;DR - your post was fine and I don't think most folks didn't get what you were saying.</blockquote>

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