Are you surprised?
This is also from one of the dudes working on the game (the character designer i think)
This is an over simplification. The sentiment being expressed is that whites must acknowledge their privileged position, and then actively work for equality. It will be hard and confronting work, but if we don't we're complicit. And complicity allows systemic racism to persist."
Sony is fucked if every studio they have turned into a woke asylum.
Criticism/self criticism. They go after people and complain to them either for just having certain traits, or self deprecate themselves, for having those arbitrary traits and not fully committing to the ideology. What they never criticize is the ideology itself that is controlling them. Another thing, left/right? That's a red herring, totalitarianism/anarchy is the true "spectrum" with various ideological details potentially there to keep things in moderate order or keep things under total control. From my educational experience, the USA was about "moderate, orderly individual freedom and the discipline to coexist with others who have different likes and dislikes." I am noticing that this year, more institutions are changing the "DEI" link on their websites from "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" to something else. I've seen "Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging" for example. I've seen "Diversity and Inclusion" on many others where the E (The Marxist E) used to be there but is no longer there. So I feel that over time more people have been seeing things get way to bizarre and are looking into and informing themselves about the ideology behind the things we've been seeing and are taking action in their own ways, which is encouraging. We're realizing that mindsets and worldviews are indoctrinated into people. Patterns of decision making and action come from those mindsets. We're realizing that products are starting to be offensive to our own values and are avoiding them. Some of us are providing the criticism of the ideologies themselves that the people trapped in them can't or won't because they're going after people
for not following their ideology instead. I've seen college websites like Purdue's where they've committed to adding mandatory Civics coursework and fundamental civics exams as graduation requirements, so that students can at least get a chance to understand the ideology and theories of individual freedom that informed the structure and institutions of the USA and judge it fairly. My favorite though is this, from the Cannes Film Festival, which I think is in the spirit of creative industries:
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/...freedom-of-expression-equality-and-diversity/:
A reflection of creation, a mirror on the world, the Festival invites filmmakers from around the world to bear witness to their times. By selecting them, the Festival offers them a canvass of free artistic and political expression, which contributes, edition after edition, to redrawing the world film map. It’s also in full awareness of this issue that the Festival determines its Official Selection, which is both demanding and attentive to diversity and equality. It’s with this same consciousness and this same desire to make all voices heard that people from all over the world are brought together to sit on its juries and that the Festival is organised.
In order to preserve the artistic independence of its selection, it does not apply a quota policy, but remains equally mindful of developments in production worldwide. In particular, during the selection process, the Festival pays close attention to the percentage of female-directed films selected so that this is broadly consistent with the percentage of female-directed films submitted to the official selection.
Diversity and Equality is my favorite of the "deMarxified" versions of DEI. When they first rolled out DEI a few years ago, that's what I thought it'd be and withheld judgement on it. It does not demand conformity of values in each and every product, but allows for equality of opportunity for each
unique director to express themselves artistically or even politically as
they choose. It considers publishing
additional projects that showcase other points of view that may not have been showcased before. Heck, in the company I work for, they tried selling
additional products with boldly African motifs and they all sold out very quickly! The "I" sounds benign at first, but that is a big source of the self censorship when "inclusion" means each product having to conform to every single like and dislike of every person. I have to concede, that each director of so many projects could legitimately want to promote Marxist values, for whatever reason. I've thought about the "old man yells at clouds" meme though, and have concluded personally that this is a totally different situation, what generation before needed a wholescale
department to be added to institutions in order to force a Marxist value system on everybody else? Maybe this can be a teaching moment for experienced creators or executives at these companies to explain the values that allow coexistence of free expression like before. I want the coexist bumper sticker people back, not the glitter studded, pink hammer and sickle bumper sticker people haha (seriously, I saw a car with that bumper sticker but haven't seen the coexist one in a long time).
www.forbes.com
www.smashjt.com
www.metacritic.com
the game is polished, fun, pretty much the best time I've had with a shooter in ages. Literally years. And I'm pretty convinced most hate is coming from butt hurt pc gamers who either have some allegiance to overwatch and co, or some ongoing hate against sony ( even though sony games are pretty much propping up their platform atm ) ,or people with some weird assumption all games should be free ...or something ( and in the next breath whining about studios closing) . 
