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NEW: Mursion, a corporate education company, provides human resources training to some of the world’s largest corporations while using white actors to portray people of color in virtual reality simulations.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
In the Mursion simulations, white actors played the roles of the Black characters or characters of Asian descent and neurotypical adults played autistic children.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
Mursion said that it uses “open casting" to scale its business and to protect actors of color from retraumatization and defended the practice by saying that its avatars are merely “hypothetical characters."https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
However, seven current and former Mursion employees expressed concerns about the company’s own diversity and inclusion practices. Three employees independently described an incident in which a white simulation specialist used the n-word while acting as an avatar of color.
There is no way to prevent actors’ unconscious biases about other racial identities from affecting their performance, scholars of race and digital media told BuzzFeed News.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
It is not clear how much thought Mursion’s big corporate clients have given the company’s casting decisions — or whether they are even aware of them.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
This specifically is a bad example because those were given to them by their Black colleagues so they could wear them in solidarity during that protest.
Not the same thing
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