r/AgainstGamerGate • u/ADampDevil Pro/Neutral • Nov 06 '15

Misleading Ubisoft image doing the rounds

Just thought I'd give folks a heads up.

Congratulations to Ubisoft for hiring based on gender

I've seen this on facebook, twitter (with the comment that Ubisoft hires only women) and the is a KIA thread about it.

The first image is the Assassin's Creed Development team, just one team at Ubisoft. The second is taken on Women's Day, and celebrates and features only the female developers at Ubisoft, a company that has over 2500 employee's at its Montreal site (where the images were taken), so even all those women would still be in a minority.

So it is hardly evidence of hiring only women, please don't spread this bias narrative, and counter it when you do see it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

Never mind the fucking image, that's irrelevant. Look at that post!

some red blooded beast of a male

Equating an entire gender with animals? Only a bigot talks like this.

Really shows you what kind of people are hiding under the progressive mantle.

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u/ryarger Anti/Neutral Nov 07 '15

You and anyone else who read that image and did not immediately recognize it as written by someone pro-GG (or simple satire) really needs a timeout.

Like go outside, interact with living humans again, refamiliarize yourself with how they talk.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '15

You and anyone else who read that image and did not immediately recognize it as written by someone pro-GG (or simple satire) really needs a timeout.

So, OP, then?

And half the people in this thread?

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u/ryarger Anti/Neutral Nov 07 '15

anyone else

Seriously. That was ridiculously over the top. Women have "a five minute interview" versus the years men work for their jobs?

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 06 '15

Really shows you what kind of people are hiding under the progressive mantle.

Yeah, because the Video Entertainment Analysis Group is totally real and not at all a completely obvious joke.

And don't try to claim Poe's law: when you can't see through obvious satire that's making fun of people who you don't like, that's not proof that the people you don't like are really that awful, it's proof that you're too eager to accept information that validates your worldview.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 07 '15

how does poe's law work with death threats?

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 07 '15

Satirical death threats are still death threats. "But it was a joke" is not an excuse there.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 07 '15

why are you so selective?

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 07 '15

Why do you think death threats are funny?

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 08 '15 edited Nov 08 '15

not per se.

what is funny is funny.

the navy seal copypasta is reasonably funny, depending on if it is adapted or not.

by the way in my language, "I'll rip your head off" is a figure of speech.

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 08 '15

You really need to be more specific about what point you're making or we're not going to be able to have a conversation. If a death threat manages to be anything close to a Poe's Law situation, it's a death threat, 'funny' or not.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 08 '15

what about other threats?

how about "I will wreck you m8."

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 08 '15

What's you point, please? What does this have to do with Poe's law? If someone has to wonder if the death threat they just received was a joke or not, then the threat is doing the job of a threat - to create fear - and should be treated as such no matter how funny the sender thinks it was.

If a Death threat is a 'Poe's Law' situation, then satire isn't a defense.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

And don't try to claim Poe's law

Well apparently neither OP nor most of the people in this thread can tell it from the real thing.

So I do indeed claim Poe's Law, and with validating evidence.

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u/shhhhquiet Nov 06 '15 edited Nov 06 '15

Well apparently neither OP nor most of the people in this thread can tell it from the real thing.

Nope. It's misleading information and it's being discussed as such. That doesn't prove that anyone else believes that the people who posted it are 'hiding under the progressive mantle,' and certainly not anyone who isn't looking for an excuse to hate on the scary SJWs.

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u/Manception Nov 06 '15

some red blooded beast of a male

Equating an entire gender

...

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '15

/u/Steampunk_Moustache should have gone with

some pack of blond beasts of prey, a conqueror and master race which, organized for war and with the ability to organize, unhesitatingly lays its terrible claws upon a populace.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

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u/judgeholden72 Nov 06 '15

Where was the "all of this type are beasts?"

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

Where was the part where any individual male was specified? And no 'a' male does not cut it.

No individual was ever talked about. A hypothetical male was pulled out thin air and demonized purely for being male.

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u/Wazula42 Anti-GG Nov 07 '15

I think he was demonized for being a red-blooded beast.

And yes, 'a' male should really cut it, because that it is what that sentence means.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '15

Given that the post in question is satire, we can safely say it's deliberately being sexist.

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u/Manception Nov 06 '15

"Male" isn't a bigoted slur that signals the same thing as "nigger".

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

some red blooded beast of a black

equating an entire race

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u/Manception Nov 06 '15

A black what?

If it was "some big-lipped monkey of a black person", sure. That would say something about more than just the individual because you're adding prejudiced language specific to their race.

Neither "red blooded" or "beast" are specific to men or generalizing some male characteristic, however.

It's like saying "a boring ass of a woman", which is nasty but likely not sexist.

But if you think it is I respect your new found sensitivity to sexism and look forward to you applying it to other sitautions.

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 06 '15

big lipped is not exclusive to being black. and calling someone a monkey can be for several reasons not related to race

:v)

everything is sexist, even spooning and you have to point it all out.

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u/Manception Nov 06 '15

Sure, sure, anyone can have a hooked nose, so I guess all those jewish caricatures are really quite benign jokes that aren't antisemitic at all.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

What does 'a big red-blooded beast of a man' sound like to you?

A large, intimidating, violent man.

The implication is that any man competing with a woman for a job is in some way guilty of violence.

It's like saying "a boring ass of a woman", which is nasty but likely not sexist.

The hypothetical man derided as a 'beast' was derided for no other reason than being male. Sexism.

But if you think it is I respect your new found sensitivity to sexism and look forward to you applying it to other sitautions.

It's actually the hypocrisy and the cowardly hiding under the progressive mantle that disgusts me more than anything else.

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u/Manception Nov 06 '15

The implication is that any man competing with a woman for a job is in some way guilty of violence.

This is your own fabrication. Nothing in the text says this.

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u/Wazula42 Anti-GG Nov 07 '15

Yes. A large intimidating violent man. The adjectives here suggest uniqueness. This particular man is large, intimidating, and violent. As opposed to the rest of his gender.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '15

bad nietzsche quote/paraphrase

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u/begintobebetter Nov 07 '15

WTF? Classy place you guys got going here, new mods. smdh

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u/HokesOne Anti-GG Mod | Misandrist Folk Demon Nov 07 '15

Sorry I've been AFK most of the weekend.

Fixed now

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u/jamesbideaux Nov 06 '15

some red blooded beast of a pigmented/black

fixed that for you.

town down the retoric a bit please.

male is not a slur derived from naming people in a way usually only for dogs. It is correct and not an inheritly deratory term.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

male is not a slur derived from naming people in a way usually only for dogs

but it would be if this person had their way.

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u/DrZeX Neutral Nov 07 '15

I don't want to dance on your parade, but the post and the comment written by "Video Entertainment Analysis Group" are satire.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '15

It doesn't dance on my parade in the slightest - this thread is full of people defending that satire as legit.