What is a "Woke" Game

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Machiavellian said:

bdbdbd said:

It does make you a national of some American country, but it does nothing to your ethnicity. 

What is woke here, is identity politics - at the same time everyone should "identify as American" everyone should identify by their otherness, which naturally doesn't exist, because everyone is American. Just take a look at US presidential elections for example: ethnic group A votes for canditate X, ethnic group B votes for candidate Y, ethnic group C votes for candidate Z and so on. And therefore we need DEI hires in government positions to have equal representation, because a minority would be minority in representation when treated fairly. 

When has humans in general only identify by just one definition.  If you identify as straight white male does that also mean you do not identify as an American.  The thing is DEI is not based on just race, you do understand that right.  DEI can be race, religion, gender, nationality, age, disability etc, or are you one of those people who only see the term fitting for someone of another race outside of white and that's it?

If that is the case then as always, the term DEI has been co-opted from its original definition and serve as just a tool to use for giving the appearance that someone of another race outside of being white was hired not for their skill but their race. The question is why is there such a policy or do you believe that their isn't discriminations for the list of individuals that fall under DEI.  Or is it that you believe that DEI is used for hiring equal representation for individuals within that group instead of hiring to combat discriminations within the workplace.

I'm not talking about how someone identifies him/herself. If you identify as a dog, does that make you a dog? Tomorrow you can be a cat. The day after a moose. 

I mean the DEI practices and diversity quotas. If you pick actors based on diversity, and not skill or how much money someone can bring in, there's something seriously wrong. If you think there aren't enough African representation in your movies, you should watch African movies. The same for Asians. And Europeans. What it does, is that it actually helps to make these actors and films known and financially viable and we get more of them. Or why not go watch women-focused films, instead of ones that were just gender swapped. If you think of the new Star Wars films, Rey was really shitty character, but Rogue One had Jyn who was excellent. Barbie was one of the best films of 2023, because it was well written and had lots of depht under the silly surface.