Japanese literature professor, Sachi Schmidt-Hori, consulted Ubisoft on their latest Assassin’s Creed game, and it was somehow discovered that she helped create a Black African samurai character for the game.
Despite the character being based on a real person, Prof. Schmidt-Hori was attacked viciously online by those accusing her of “wokeness.” Instead of going into hiding or lashing out at the critics, she contacted each critic personally to have a conversation.
And it worked.
”The intervention that she did was pretty brilliant in terms of sort of stopping that toxic train in its tracks and putting another spin on how people are engaging with her,” Mays said. “She’s sort of breaking the spell of that online disinhibition community involvement and forcing people to address her as a human and an individual.”
Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness