Controversial Andromeda Developer

I have virtually zero presence online, and certainly don't follow Manveer Heir (I believe he's the guy we're discussing). It seems there is all sort of nuance to this "White Tears" of which I wasn't aware. You know what? None of it matters. It's still inflammatory and unhelpful.

Reading his posts, he seems nearly entirely devoted to this line of thought. I imagine he's had some difficult experiences. Maybe stuff like that helps him feel better. Despite my "whiteness", I'm not completely oblivious to the things he seems to believe he's fighting. Ultimately, though, behavior like his divides, and BioWare shouldn't be endorsing it through quiet acceptance. As I said before, swap ethnicities or genders and this guy is fired, in order to protect BioWare's image as champions of social justice and empathy.

I've nothing more to add to this thread. I feel badly for the guy. I have intimate family and close friends of multiple races and nationalities. There is injustice everywhere you look in this world. Still, it's unfortunate that he feels this is the way he needs to express his frustration with injustice. It just seems like it would be so miserable a path, in the long run, being such a negative smart ass all the time.

Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.

hmmm, I'll admit it, when I first saw this thread, my expectations of it ending in a fight were moderate.
Thank you all for a fairly intelligent thread (so far) on a sensitive subject liable to disagreement. (polite applause)

*reads the posts of Manveer and those who agree with him* 

Oh man, they are incorrect and hypocritical on so many levels.

What's he think of the new Ghostbusters?

New forum.

Same old BSN x)

I don't see color. People tell me I'm white, and I believe them because I dance like Shepard.

Meh. I don't want to participate or revel in an outrage porno, but somehow this feels pretty hollow and falls flat even as an attempt. I don't think he's just trolling for trolling's sake, and I'd be surprised if there wasn't any genuine belief or emotion behind those tweets (by quickly looking just at sheer number of them, and there's some, which I can only presume to be his legitimate political views, which are in-line with his belligerent ones). Provocativeness is probably intentional stylistic choice, along with a sarcasm and tongue-cheek, but I see nothing more but your average venting of holy rage about perceived injustices of the world. I think, it's quite humane and not exactly unusual in the internet. According those tweets he is probably a gaping asshole, whom I wouldn't care to meet or exchange one word, but so what. What's yet another throwing of rocks or insults at this point going to do or change.

Don't see a problem, even if he's EA employee. Personally I can't say I would be terrible cross if these SWJ-meme cluster beliefs overlap to Bioware games, if those are indeed values Bioware employees most commonly share, and it is the game they want to make . Not that necessarily I'd share them or want to play that game, but I don't see no inherent reasons why games shouldn't ever be political or editorializing, or that any singular game should try appeal to everybody (the polarization is so far away, that I doubt anybody can do anything meaningful or "deep" anymore, which wouldn't exclude or offend at least some large particular group or other). As long as they are honest and forthcoming with their choices and intentions.

Considering the corporation which Bioware is now part of, I wouldn't be surprised if honest and forthcoming is pretty much everything they are not going to do (regardless of how a game truly is, it's pretty sure that we are going to see calculated gestures and lips service towards every imaginable group there is, from "old school fans" to SWJs, and every group they think is reasonably large demographically).

Meh, one or two of those don't sound too good (most are harmless) but there is not really any context. I'll judge Bioware by their games rather than the personal views of their employees.

Please note, I'm talking about racism as it exists in the US.

As I understand it, prejudice + power isn't about accusing everyone of racism although I think that most everyone suffers from a tribal mentality that is a hold-over from our evolutionary past. That's another discussion, though. Prejudice + power is used to point out the practical difference in the way racism effects an actual oppressed minority living under structural racism vs the small effect on the lives of the dominant group that benefits from structural racism. 

White people benefit from structural racism. That's not a finger-wagging condemnation of white people. It's just a fact. None of us asked to benefit from it; we were just born into a society that has a long horrible history of racism and this racism is embedded in the fabric of our society. A white person's offended feelings about being judged on their race is never going to be equal to what a person of color experiences daily. The "white tears" mug is mocking people that try to make these issues equivalent. 

Far too often, conversations about racism and what to do about it are derailed by the dominant group, white people, insisting that the conversation be made all about them. That's not really helpful and doesn't solve any problems. We really need to sit back and listen when a POC speaks and help to educate fellow white people. My two cents. 

Nobody is applying racism to a different group by mocking people who think the fact that a white person had something racist said to them one time which had no effect on their life is equivalent to what a different group experiences on a daily bases.

It's like going up to a bunch of starving people on the street and bitching about how you had to skip breakfast once because your boss wanted you to get to work early and maybe instead of trying to solve homelessness, they should give free breakfasts to people at work.

Nobody is arguing that they are equivalent, so I'm not sure what you're going on about.