It does not.
The colour of a persons skin, or their gender, or whatever, is absolutely irrelevant to a persons ability to write a good game or do a good piece of art, or run a company, or whatever.
Hiring someone solely because of their skin colour or gender or whatever is tokenism or filling some quota or worse yet, mere virtue signalling.
If the only reason you want to hire me is because I am handicapped then no that is not diversity. It is everything but diversity.
You want to reduce us to a set to collect. A quota to meet.
Some of us have had to live through this stupidity before and all this new "diversity movement" is is the same old gag all over again doing far far more damage than any good it such dehumanization could do. And now we are starting to see RPG companies wanting to enforce that at every table if they could. "Hey Bob? I got an extra cripple and nigger at my table. Wanna trade for that spare fag and gook you have so I can complete my Diversity Set?"
Maybee they will sell us in randomized boxes.
Yes it does, because it often mean that the person doing it have a different outlook on things.
Yes, that outlook may seem or even be superficial at times, but really, this is entertainment, and here, both surface and depth are key parts.
I actually don't mind "tokenism", because one has to start somewhere, and tokens is a start, it is what you do afterwards with those "tokens" that are important.
I agree that it cannot replace skill, but skill takes time to develop ... so where to put the line?
No Diversity?
Some?
Only Skill counts?
Meh, "Skill" is actually a bit hard to spot in game creation, unless it is the vague definitions of Great, Competent, or Sub-par, and even there things easily are confused with Style ...
There is over-focus or even downright obsession with "Diversity" in certain groups though, and ... well, they are a bit of a problem, but there is ALWAYS problematic matters, things to quarrel about.
If this is merely one of those things, then i do not care.
As for the "collectible" jokes ...
I guess i'd fill the "Furry" slot.
Or the Transgender slot.
There is always things to get insulted about, no matter who or what you are.
It is interesting, that the tables are a bit turned today, and you might feel like a pariah or nothing just because you are white, male, or straight hetero ...
It is not fun to feel like that.
And so people responds !
We just wanna be ourselves.
And i just go ... welcome to our world.
I'm technically a white male, but i'm actually a Furry Therian Otherkin Bisexual Transwoman ... and a bit trans-racial too (as if the Otherkin part weren't weird enough) ...
Yes, i'm a metal snowflake, special even among the weirdos, but you would currently not see that by looking at my current physical form.
I'm not happy, ... all the damned stereotypes ... oh, yeah, i have some weird mental problems too (of course i have to have that as well, why not, ...)
My ACTUAL POINT IS ....
NO ONE LIKES TO BE A PARIAH !
...Unless you are severely masochistic.
No matter your skincolour, ideology, gender, hobby, style or other thing.
It was just required some shit like this to get "normies" to end up on the receiving end of that feeling, and to perhaps understand, but really, none of us wanted this, not really.
...And those that did want it ... i can't say i blame them.
...Damn, sorry for the unwarranted rant ... i think?
* sighs *
Well, this is where we have to go from now, i guess.
There is no going back, we have to fix things now.
Preferably ASAP.