For the past few years, the mainstream video game press has been frothing at the mouth about alleged sexual harassment in the workplace at the Activision-Blizzard family of studios. Just this month in a consent decree, Activision agreed to pay a $18 million settlement which resolves the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit.
Additionally, the California Civil Rights Department also got Activision to concede to a $54 million payment to resolve their lawsuit. It is not clear if the EEOC lawsuit abrogates the CCRD lawsuit.
TechCrunch reports some shocking information that the allegations of sexual harassment were not proven and that Bobby Kotick and their executive team were absolved from responsibility:
The California Civil Rights Department will withdraw its allegations as part of the settlement, and stated in the agreement that “no court or independent investigation has substantiated any allegations that there has been systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard.”
The settlement also states that the California Civil Rights Department investigation did not produce evidence of illegal behavior on behalf of the company’s board, its executives or its chief executive, Bobby Kotick.
This admission on the part of the CCRD obliterates the specious “frat boy culture” narrative that the mainstream media has been peddling for years on end.
Somehow Activision-Blizzard lawyers made a deal that everything would go away as long as they paid the money. The settlement is supposed to be dispersed to Activision-Blizzard employees who can make successful claims that they were sexually harassed and discriminated against by gender. It’s hard to believe that all $54 million will be going to claimants. Here are the details:
- Pay approximately $54,875,000 to cover direct relief to workers and litigation costs. Of the total, approximately $45,750,000 will go to a settlement fund dedicated to compensating workers.
- Distribute any excess settlement funds to charitable organizations focused on advancing women in the video game and technology industries or promoting awareness around gender equality issues in the workplace.
- Retain an independent consultant to evaluate and make recommendations regarding Activision Blizzard’s compensation and promotion policies and training materials.
- Continue its efforts regarding the inclusion of qualified candidates from underrepresented communities in outreach, recruitment, and retention.
I predict that most of this settlement will go to lawyers (a whopping $9 million) and the creation of a leftist slush fund that will fill the coffers of various worthless feminist, LGBTQ, and DEI hucksters. Why is this? I believe that cases of bona fide discrimination against female and minorities at their studios are much rarer than believed by the general public. This is the fault of the agenda-driven media.
At the same time, I just learned that Activision-Blizzard has been hit with another lawsuit by a civil rights organization called America First Legal. This time it’s on behalf of the true victims of discrimination at the studio: white heterosexual males.
Here’s a statement from America First Legal:
“It’s unbelievable that in 2023–some sixty or so years after the civil rights movement–major corporations would obsess over the race and sex of the employees in their workforces. They apparently do not care as much about the quality of the products that they make, but the race and sex of the employees who make their products. Every American is unique, but to corporations like Activision, Americans are nothing more than cogs in machines who can be prioritized for hiring and career advancement based on the amount of melanin in their skin or their sex. These practices are illegal and must end.” said Gene Hamilton.
As the number of company positions at any given time is static, staffing is a zero-sum game. For every “under-represented” identity group that is given preferential treatment and hired for corporate virtue signaling purposes, it means that one less opening will be available for a qualified white heterosexual male to fill. This is discrimination pure and simple. It is illegal as per the United States of America 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conclusion
Since this lawsuit does not jibe with the regime-approved narrative that women and minorities are being oppressed by so-called white supremacy and the illusory patriarchy, it goes largely unreported by the complicit and corrupt video games industry media.
It is also concerning that the EEOC and the California Civil Rights Department have not taken up the cause of white heterosexual males who have been systematically discriminated against by Activision-Blizzard. As the diversity, equity, and inclusion racket is being internationally exposed for the great damage they are doing to the world, expect to see more lawsuits being filed by America First Legal.
Serious people understand that replacing time-tested precepts of merit with DEI is a recipe for civilizational folly. Just this month the richest man in the world and visionary Elon Musk rightly called out this cancerous idealogy on X:
The tide is finally turning as more woke companies are being sued for engaging in this despicable and repugnant practice. You can run, but you can’t hide.
As I have been reporting on this site for many years, wokeness has infiltrated the video game industry at an alarming pace. Spearheaded by then-CEO Mike Morhaime, Blizzard has been engaging in a pattern of alleged widespread systemic discrimination against qualified white heterosexual males since 2017. But the powers that be in the video game industry and the activists in the media didn’t care because it didn’t bolster their neo-Marxist agenda.
Since I became aware of its inception, I have proudly displayed a banner for America First Legal on this website. I pledge to assist them in any way I can with my existing body of work and further research on the subject. Here are two videos from AFL that exemplify the good work that they are doing in fighting the blatant criminality of DEI policies and the bad actors that facilitate it:
Given this legal action by America First Legal, I hope that more white male heterosexual unsuccessful applicants and former and existing employees will contact them to seek redress for the discrimination that they may have faced.
—Wolfshead
I am looking forward to the result of the AFL lawsuit. I have doubts they will succeed, unfortunately, but the point will be made and become basis for discussion and future rulings.
You are right, a leftish slush fund will get the money and make profit. I am not too happy with this settlement, as the damage has been done to the careers and personal honor of talented and creative people who brought us so much joy with their fantastic games. They apparently didn’t want to fight it through to the bitter end to avoid possible more damage, but I still think they got the worse deal.
Blizzard is lost. But many other studios are terribly affected as well. I got Star Wars Squadrons a while ago, it seems abandoned but for almost no money I could not resist. They do not even allow you to name your char, you might write something offensive and there is a multiplayer part. You have a selection of every colored ethnicity and there is body type A and B and voices A and B, instead of male or female. Choices from every ethnicity are available, but only one white male guy portrait that didn’t resonate much with me. Civilization VI has an abundance of female leaders, etc. etc… too many examples to list here and you know the drill already.
Musk has already been targeted by the European Union. They somewhat reigned in free speech on Telegram, Facebook is already fully under control, news about atrocities and people speaking their mind, you only find that on X/Twitter in Europe by now.
They want X to censor more and pay some money to the EU, just like the olde woke Twitter did…
Oh well… I wish us and our families a better year 2024. Europe is in turmoil and almost overrun, some political resistance stirs, though. Poland is now ruled by a leftist coalition by Tusk, Merkel’s old buddy… they had a good run so far. First thing he did was replace media leadership and install a LGBTsomething family minster…
I am very hopeful that America First Legal will prevail against Activision-Blizzard now owned by Microsoft. Anti–discrimination laws are very powerful here in the USA and the woke crowd is finding this out right now. AFL has an excellent track record of winning their lawsuits. The jig is up for the DEI scam. I hope they all go to jail.
The body type delusion seems widespread in the video game industry. If you believe that body type should replace biological sex, then you also are denying the reality of biology. If you don’t believe in biology than you have no business attempting to make a living breathing virtual world. Body type is a repugnant and specious term. They are doing this to make trans people feel welcomed. The trans agenda has its evil tentacles in most video game studios today. I manifests itself in many ways: ugly looking women, women with flat chests, body type and more. I plan on doing a full blown article on this in the new year.
Europe seems lost except for Hungary. The former communist Polish people know better. Shame on them!
Merkel is a communist hag that will burn in hell if she doesn’t repent for what she did to Germany.
I wouldn’t be so sure about the West, even Europe, being lost
Denmark weirdly is starting to expel their migrants and make requirements/costs for the migrants to come in/stay, like taking away their valuables as payment and checking if their countries are now safe and also trying to de-ghetto their places, because if they don’t want to assimilate they can’t congregate in such a way that prevents more contact with their local culture
While I am pretty sure the WEF types rule the world and have bigger plans, I also believe they have backup plans of a sort, it’s why I’ve seen that even Lefties admit that
A) Conservatives and non-Lefties are way more likely to reproduce
B) More men are avoiding college, due to a combination of Cancel Culture and it not being that financially secure an idea to begin with
C) Conservatives are way more likely to work out and take care of their own health, to the point that “men” on the Left have lower testosterone levels
D) Those in charge of the USAF lament that current recruits are too fat, too lazy and too addicted to drugs to train….and I guess many rural country boys don’t want to fight for an Armed Forces that will backstab them and it’s better to go to trade school rather than college or the armed forces
E) It’s bit by bit, but companies are slowly avoiding ESG due to it starting to cost more than it gives
Take note, this is NOT a change of heart, merely a change of tactics, they have no actual regret beyond regretting that they didn’t get their complete win. They’ll still essentially own many government and non-government institutions whether they be fandoms, clubs or businesses….they’ll just dial back on the whole ruining them for the more genuine members. Before they inevitably go back to ESG stuff, and hopefully by then increased decentralization, parallel economies and more people NOT being easily emotionally manipulated and shamed into compliance will be a thing.
While I’m not very familiar, it seems to me like organizations like AFL will be viewed as anti-establishment, unless they gain ground really fast and amount a large following and support.
Because democracy is dead and communism is returning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9rRbVycNQk
https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5e1f14d2-72b3-488f-a53c-fc94fee92dac
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-12-18/debates/945EBBB4-D052-4CF7-8109-B39FF7FF919D/InternationalHealthRegulations2005
Soon they will limit our freedom to travel freely to the point where we will be locked in cages like animals. The gender identity crap will be nothing but a side dish soon.
I’ve read lots of books in these past few years, oddly some of the stuff were made long before 2020 and long before IdPol went into overdrive
Hell, I’ve seen people comparing Deus Ex with WEF and COVID due to the plot of the first game’s virus and “Illuminati” of rich technocrats
If reality really does imitate fiction, I can see that the Powers-That-Be, turn out to be “not so omniscient” or find that they accidentally wrecked more than they thought they would
And worse, made people too alert to what’s going on.
It’s why I think “Going Galt” will increase in the coming years
Don’t want to deal with “modern women/feminist women/western women”? Two paths. MGTOW(single forever with little to no interaction due to #MeToo, option of surrogates to pass on their genes)and PassPort Bros(go to foreign non-western countries, for “traditional women” and cheaper living)
You find that less and less female characters, hell even women IRL, look like women at all…..the Parallel Economy provides alternatives to Carl Manvers/CaptainMarvel in the form of Carly Vanders/Kamen America…..Parallel Economy’s probably gonna be the only place you can buy actual meat instead of bugs post 2030 as well
Others may even found their own new settlements or countries, far far far away from the worst of it
Those stuff I mentioned…..those are the more optimistic fiction….the less so…..let’s just say by the time it ends many cities are starved to death due to infrastructure and supply lines being sabotaged and tech downgrades due to Orwellian control and it being too reliant on parts and services elsewhere to build and maintain.