Woke Content Detector's Curated List of Games
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He literally put the "Ubisoft disclaimer about being a multicultural team of various faiths" from the original Assassin's Creed as overtly pro-DEI, when the entire purpose of it was because they were scared of Muslims killing them for setting it in the Middle East. Which was a huge fear at the time and is the opposite of anything pro-DEI even if the same disclaimer would be so a decade later.
Considering he puts out dozens of reviews a day sometimes, this is almost certainly just a guy asking his discord "is this game woke" and then repeating whatever they say.
Going to be honest, it doesn't matter what the motivation for putting that in a game is.
What matters is that it reinforces the narrative that "multiculturalism/diversity" is good and should be pursued to protect against criticism. Definitely DIE.
The Muslims were literally killing people in Europe over blaspheme in media at the time. By putting it in for that motivation, its acknowledging they are brutish and violent monsters and being scared of them. Something anathemic to DEI as a concept.
That's a possible reading of this kind of thing, but it's not credible to say that's the subtext that will be communicated to the audience.
I doubt even a significant fraction of the dev team would intend your meaning. It's probably like 95% or more people who see this receiving the more overt "DIE = Good" messaging.
The subtext was of its time, and the disclaimer has remained unchanged since that time. The current team and political climate give it a completely different meaning while reading, and Ubisoft certainly are content with that, no doubt.
But its a piece of the game's history and place in history. Removing it because of modern day politics is technically censorship itself. The point isn't that "this won't read as DEI," its that simply calling it simply such in a tiny blurb shows a complete lack of knowledge about the product and its surroundings.
Which as someone whose entire shtick is "trust me bro, its woke" you need to demonstrate you have, otherwise its just a guy screaming randomly at everything he sees and getting some right to look credible. Which is certainly the case looking at his list.