I've found that people who claim others should "Toughen up", or "Get over it", or ask "What's the big deal", they tend to be bullies and assholes. The thing is, it's not on them to decide if someone else is offended by, or hurt by, something that was said or done. What's on them is to be a decent person. If you decide that you become a better person by letting people hit you, yell at you, scream racist things at you, then you should find a group of people that enjoy doing that to others. There's certainly enough assholes like that around. But if someone said that they don't grow as a person when someone treats them like that, it's not your responsibility to decide to prove them wrong. It's your responsibility to grow up and stop acting like an ass. If you can't do that, go somewhere and be alone.
Diversity in gaming is a way of recognizing that across the world, people in a position of power have done everything that they could, repeatedly, to ensure that their power isn't diluted. So, by acknowledging that none of those people in power are any better than anyone else, and they certainly don't have the right to belittle others or try to keep them "in their place", some gaming companies have taken the steps to try to show that we're all people. No one is "better than" anyone else simply because of the color of their skin, the people that they love, or the country in which they grew up. Some were more privileged than others. Some had the opportunity to make huge improvements in their lives. And some got a break and were in the right place with the right idea and the willingness to work hard for something they wanted.
And some were hanged for looking at a pretty lady. Or sitting at a drugstore counter. Or sitting on a bus. Diversity and inclusion is the rest of us trying to say "That was wrong. That is wrong. And we don't want it to happen again."
