If you ever made the joke that the most oppressed person in the world is a black trans-identifying lesbian with physical disabilities, then you were ahead of the curve. Activision-Blizzard, the makers of Call of Duty and Overwatch, have – very inexplicably, but not unsurprisingly – created a tool to objectively rate a character’s “diversity.”
The game developers, who are currently embroiled in various labor lawsuits with the state of California and workers unions over fostering a toxic work environment for its female employees, up to and including sexual harassment, have decided to ramp up their woke efforts with the development of a character diversity metric.
The system, which isn’t unlike what you might find on a role-playing game character sheet, assigns a score to various attributes, including race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, disability, and so forth.
Activision-Blizzard understands that it needs to make fundamental changes to how it is perceived by the public – especially in the wake of Microsoft’s move to take it over – but making, and even publicizing a tool that distills “diversity, equity, and inclusion” into pre-defined metrics is not the best way to go about it. If anything, it tokenizes certain attributes – that’s both racist and sexist.
According to a blog post Activision-Blizzard published on its website, the thrust is that employees at one of its subsidiaries, King, developed a tool in their off-hours to break down character attributes to rate how “diverse” they are. The post, which calls it the “Diversity Space Tool,” was made based on a collective desire to make their characters more diverse and less straight, white, and male.
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