You mean the lawsuits that will be tossed out by the totally not corrupt upstanding officials at the "Supreme" Court?

An assessment test I did for a job recently was essentially just an SAT and IQ test. None of it had to do with the position but it was a quick way for them to say "no foreigners."

Doing good work takes time to make money, execs need those quarterly bonuses right now. Much easier to do a bunch of layoffs and get that line up now.

I dunno. I’m a believer that there is real benefit to diverse teams and there is some evidence in support of this.

You're 100% right! But good luck convincing the bean counters.

That generational improvement is not the natural order of the universe. It's the result of individuals putting themselves in harms way to push for change. It's hard-fought legislation moving the cause forward. It's constitutional amendments. It's legal cases won against the odds. It's corporations jumping on the bandwagon not wanting to be seen to oppose respectable society.

But those who have always fought against the process are racking up wins. That generational change you've observed that looked inevitable is under severe threat. You cannot count on it happening by itself.

Minor niggle: they're legally compelled to work in the best interests of the shareholders which is usually but not always seeking profit at all costs.

But, in general, I don't disagree, I merely was mentioning that people keep getting suckered by pretty words and meaningless promises of change and then not bothering to make it have actual legal requirements behind it.

The mistake is looking at a CEO going Trust Me Bro, and trusting them. See: frog and scorpion story.

They are not legally compelled to do so. That's a nonsense myth, even for publicly traded companies.

This is kind of the thing.

Having DEI committees is now one of several symbols of the political ideologies of a company and its "senior leadership".

For both sides, I think a lot of people (or at least those that have the privilege of choosing where they work) do not want to work for a company that directly conflicts with their political leanings.

A far left worker who sees their employer axing their DEI programs could see that as a symbol that the company is swinging hard to the right, and may adapt more conservative practices that may effect them directly. See: Hobby Lobby trying to block their health insurance from covering birth control.

Likewise, a far right worker who sees their employer adopting a leftist program like DEI might start to get concerned that their employer may also start swinging more to the left and adopt progressive practices that might impact them directly. Like paying them a living wage, providing all the PPE they could ever need, or hiring a queer person.

This is a reflection of them anticipating that discrimination lawsuits will no longer be a thing under a Project 2025 Trump dictatorship.

You know what he wants. An all white video game

Remasters that remove characters or stages because they're "problematic content", redesigns of familiar characters that remove their sex appeal because feminity in and of itself is somehow misogynistic (seriously I'm a lady just wants to play a beautiful woman in my escapist fantasies, ya know cause it's MY fantasy and we all wanna be more attractive?), risque humor no longer being allowed, localizations that remove or change dialogue seen as sexist (Even if it's villain dialogue, or done to show that a specific character has flaws that include outdated views), the terms "Male and Female" are now "Body Type A" and "Body Type B" (Look I'm trans, non-binary identity is more common, I get it... but... this feels more patronizing than inclusive...)

Lots of shit like that.... and as a gamer it is quite frankly embarrassing. Games are a form of art, and we should not apologize for art.

Btw, I know the Body Type A/B thing sounds pedantic, but it really just feels like trying too hard yet not hard enough.. If it's really too offensive to just have a drop down menu that says "MALE or FEMALE" in current year, just have a character creator that lets me pick masculine/feminine/androgynous traits from menus and ask for my pronouns at the end. That'd be a much better solution (and was fucking awesome when Cyberpunk 2077 did it)

A lot of games are very lazy and have two body types, an overly masculine buff guy (A) and a curvaceous lady (B), then ask if you want to be referred to as "He, She, or They", while I understand They (Non-Binary individuals exist), can someone tell me who the fuck outside of a Right Wing troll trying (and failing) to be funny is going to pick the buff guy + the "she/her" pronouns?

It's just one of those situations where I just wanna say "Your attempt at inclusion is so poor, I'd rather you just call me a slur at this point."