Having no white males would be the antithesis of diverse. No one proposed such a thing.
It’s absolutely no secret that this industry has a long history of discrimination and harassment. Qualified women and minority applicants are routinely passed over, often losing out to less qualified males.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/
There is a long and documented history of unequal pay (even when assuming a bigger workload) harassment, being passed up for promotion (even with stellar performance reviews) in favor of lesser qualified males, and outright hostility.
This is all documented fact. The tech industry is notorious in that regard.
https://www.cio.com/article/3516012/women-in-tech-statistics-the-hard-truths-of-an-uphill-battle.html
Now I don’t believe for a second that Blizzard is at all interested in treating their employees fairly or respectfully. But when a company that has a long history of discrimination in hiring and promoting comes out and makes a statement that they’re going to look at changing all that, it’s ridiculous to hear a bunch of white males shrieking, “THEY TOOK ER JOWBS!”
Like NOT discriminating against a group of people is suddenly discriminating against another group. It’s silly.