Lalonders admitted she discriminated against white people during a presentation for the Game Devs of Color Expo 2021 that was recently highlighted by LibsofTikTok.
In the presentation Lalonders states, “ValiDate has a team of all people of color. We have no white people on our team. I did that because I wanted to create a safe environment. And I know the best way for the environment to be safe is to be around people who are just like me.”
“And I'm not saying that white people in the industry are creating unsafe environments. I'm not saying that. That is not what I'm saying,” she said. “I'm saying sometimes it is hard to work with white people because they think that something may be okay, but it was really a microaggression, and no one wants to deal with that while you're trying to make a game that they love.”
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Interesting that white conservatives have less in-group bias than white moderates. Maybe it's because moderates lack values, hence them filling the value vacuum with people who look like themselves. Conservatives have values like Christianity, states rights, self reliance, etc which as far as ideological systems go, have nothing to do with race.
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