Alexander Brazie, a game designer for No Rest for the Wicked and the owner of Atomech Consulting, attempted to justify DEI hiring practices by lying about them.
A screenshot from No Rest for the Wicked (2024), Moon Studios GmbH
As reported by p9cker_girl, Brazie commented on a post from Wardog Studios CEO Jade Law stating, “Let’s have an honest conversation about DEI hiring. (Not to be confused with diverse content). People don’t seem to really understand these policies. So let’s discuss.
She then defined what she means by DEI albeit her definition is not how major corporations such as The Walt Disney Company and Amazon define it. Nevertheless she defines it writing, “DEI policies are aimed to promote fairness and encouraging the hiring and advancement of underrepresented groups as a means of tackling bias and prejudice. They typically do not mandate hiring quotas or specify that individuals must be hired on the basis of their race or gender. Some companies might set voluntary goals to hire under-represented groups as a means to address historical discrimination.”
As you can see, she contradicts herself noting there are no quotas and then admits there are indeed quotas.
A screenshot from No Rest for the Wicked (2024), Moon Studios GmbH
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Law continued, “Diversity can mean a lot of things, it’s not just race or gender but class, background, experience and neurodivergence. I’ve always said I personally place a large value in neurodivergence and diversity of thought.”
After claiming it’s not about race or sex, she would then confirm that’s exactly what it is, “I don’t agree with hiring anyone other than the perfect person for the job regardless of gender or race. But guess what? Turns out that often means hiring a woman or a person of colour these days. If you’re on art twitter you know it’s highly competitive and the number one thing people say is “portfolio is all that matters”. If that’s not meritocracy I don’t know what is.”
A screenshot from No Rest for the Wicked (2024), Moon Studios GmbH
Despite the numerous contradictions and obvious lies already, Law then attempted to justify why these racial and gender quotas are now mainstream, “Well one of the big reasons is how accessible the industry is now. You can literally find all the resources you need to learn art and even programming online, for free! The industry is wonderful for social mobility! I personally think that’s a great thing as breaking through class barriers is something I’d love to see more working class people achieve.”
This does not explain why DEI hiring has racial and gender quotas. It does not appear to have anything to do with DEI hiring at all. From there Law goes on to reiterate much of what she already posted the hypocrisies and contradictions included.
Let’s have an honest conversation about DEI hiring. (Not to be confused with diverse content).
People don’t seem to really understand these policies. So let’s discuss.
🤔What actually is DEI?
DEI policies are aimed to promote fairness and encouraging the hiring and advancement… https://t.co/Ytp1K1SYi3— Jade Law (@jadel4w) April 12, 2024
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Brazie responded to the post writing, “Yeah, it would help if people understood: Effective DEI is about helping people who historically didn’t have the *network* to get eyes onto their work have a chance *due* to their equal skill. The whole merit smearing is so banal, presumptuous and out of touch with reality. :(”
Alexander Brazie on X
Like Law, Brazie’s short post contradicts itself. If “effective DEI” was truly about merit then you would not have racial and gender quotas in the first place. Clearly, DEI calculates in race and sex over other factors when hiring. That’s what DEI hiring is.
Just look at ABC Entertainment’s Inclusion Standards, which The Walt Disney Company uses as an example for their hiring standards company-wide. The standards clearly state that one of its factors is characters and actors must be 50% or more from Underrepresented Groups. This also applies to producers, writing staff, directors, production department heads, and more.
ABC Entertainment Inclusion Standards
If one was truly judging based on merit, one would not need DEI hiring practices that clearly enforce race and sex-based quotas.
What do you make of Brazie’s attempt to justify DEI hiring practices that are fundamentally rooted in race and sex-based quotas?
Sort of like their love of Marxism, these people are experts at deluding themselves by imagining the utopian outcomes of their actions which “haven’t been implemented perfectly yet.” That allows them to always predict the perfect outcome right around the corner, once we get it right. In reality, humans are a mess and implement things messily and you can already see the disaster of these types of ideas right now. They’re garbage and don’t work and that’s even under the assumption that they’re attempted with the best of intentions as opposed to the real reason, “We just hate white people and this is our revenge for them having all of the best toys.”
She never said there are no quotas. She said they TYPICALLY are not there. Please learn to read.