“This Is Blackface”: Inside The Virtual Reality Company Trying To Scale Diversity Training

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“This Is Blackface”: Inside The Virtual Reality Company Trying To Scale Diversity Training
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Mursion tells big corporate clients that its VR simulations will help teach racial sensitivity. But the actors playing its Black characters are often white.

A tech company that provides human resources training to some of the world’s largest corporations has been using white actors to portray people of color in virtual reality simulations about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

But scholars of race, theater, and digital media told BuzzFeed News that white actors playing characters of color in DEI simulations like Mursion’s could bring their own unconscious bias into scenarios intended to mitigate bias. Moreover, seven current and former Mursion employees, speaking confidentially with BuzzFeed News, expressed concerns about the company’s own diversity and inclusion practices.

Two employees raised concerns about white actors mimicking Black dialect while acting as Black characters.

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