All the white folks breathe a collective sigh of relief as a POC stands up to say NO to criticizing white hegemony. Thank you hero. The real world context of this problem doesn’t go away, though; the hegemony of white leadership as default across all facets of western cultures is extremely harmful to progress in…

If they were committed to changing the culture of harassment and sexism (spoiler alert: they aren’t) at Ubisoft, a 20 year veteran who has almost certainly been indoctrinated into that culture is not the way to do it.

I mean forgetting the issue of gender and nationality, maybe, juuuuust maybe, someone who’s been there 20 years is as entrenched in the toxic work culture as the guy they just canned for that very reason.

But that isn’t a pure Ubisoft problem but more of a general “France” problem. French are most famous for it that they dont really like to speak in foreign languages, especially English, even if they know and understand it perfectly fine.

Just a reminder that it’s not because you’re good at your job, because you have great output at work or because you can make things better for most other people in the company -that you are going to get a promotion. It’s not a meritocracy.

What Ubisoft should have done for social justice’s sake?

I always love these arguments that try and sound fair but really just imply no person of color is qualified to fit the jobs traditionally given to white dudes.

This isn’t necessarily about people who speak English as a primary language. English is frequently taken as a second language worldwide because so much business is done in English. So for Ubi to clarify that English is the primary company language to accommodate their international studios, many of whom are already at…

Furthermore, replacing the white men with another race and/or gender just for that fact is asinine. ...

I’m a black man who works somewhere predominately white with white males at management and exec levels of power.

And my point is that when Nintendo sets up shop in another country, they hire talent and leadership from that culture to make sure the job gets done, and that there are people capable of communicating between the Japanese leadership and the local workforce. What they don’t do is send a bunch of Japanese businessmen…

Dude, did you see what he posted? 

Nah.. His is a pipe dream fantasy AND the timescale would still leave Earth baked. Also, this guy is not a scientist. Ask him how we’re going to maintain an atmosphere absent a Van Allen Belt? let alone deal with the solar radiation. His Ted talk is to promote his book, not present any actual tangible and obtainable…

You left out the part where the things she said were blatantly racist.  

Gundam has never been optimistic. It’s been focused on the environmental impact of technology from the very beginning.

Or we just need to work on fixing the issues on the planet we are already living on.  

We also need to not waste finite resources and boil ourselves off the planet.

He’s not wrong.

That would make sense, except the world is filled counter examples to your claim. Can I enter a race with an “unofficial” modification of a car? Yep, sure can! How about enter a golf tournament with an unofficial set of modified Nike clubs? Have at it! Create an event exclusively featuring custom Rock ’Em Sock ’Em…

It’s just Nintendo’s legal team acting like they literally always have. Applesque levels of locked ecosystem and software control. Creepy shit.