Thanks for thinking, sharing and acting. I believe you already represent a very global and diverse course and I love to bike and run with people from all these countries. Therefore this is out of focus and you don’t need to follow the crowd of companies asking for forgiveness…
Especially it’s a wrong focus to donate all our global, diverse subscription money to a local purpose at your HQ - that is not being global and it’s an insult to customers from all other places.
Rather focus on what your platform is able to on a global scale. Show diversity in the game it self. Make sessions and races that express For All. Get the running community on level with the bikers with same amount of features. Be proud of your role as a global place for bringing bikers and runners together in a community. Every dollar you spend on better features, diverse clothes and activities for all, will expand this community and therefore do more for global diversity and unity than spending money locally at HQ. You certainly need to re-focus!!
Best regards Lars
Please stick to cycling, use money to help people who cannot afford it to get bicycles, smart trainers etc.
Please stop this bs.
Thank you Swift - just in time to bow out before my free trial expires.
The missing flags on some riders I think would be something easy and immediate?
Thank you. This is my first experience with gaming software - I assume this is what I’m experiencing. Edging up on 74, my primary exercise was swimming before the virus. That gone (for now) I purchased a Tacx, subscribed to Swift, and it’s been great fun and exercise from the start. Many businesses support the communities where they live and work in different ways. I am pleased to learn of your approach to contributing to your local community and the broader culture as well.
I hope everyone that’s canceling their Zwift account keeps that same energy and cancels every company you just posted since they are against company’s helping injustice against black people in America.
I’m sure they won’t. No Microsoft or Apple… Good luck lol
Hey Zwift, can you fix it so that user names on zwift are non political or that users can easily flag other user names containing a political message? I’m here to train and socialise in a political / racism free virtual world.
Sorry Bryan. Looks like trainer road is donating to the NAACP
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sounds like we need to beta test some of your races and comments or better yet find a new platform to ride on its bad enough with all the watt ■■■■’s on this platform , i dont see for the life of me how they allow swift power who harass and try to get riders not to do events or even list on there paltform no z power riders allowed in swift platform races or shame the swift paying customer of which there are over 20k new riders and most not on expensive trainers and expensive bikes like training hard is something wrong i for one will be taking a knee like the NFL colleges and high schools all over america will soon be doing womp womp
Zwift, stay out of politics please, or I’ll find another platform
Zwift, thank you for your willingness and courage to look beyond the present with a desire to do something long term about right human relations within your company and community. I and other subscribers like me appreciate your dedication to goodwill and progressive social transformation.
I was really upset to find my home country flag not showing when I was riding, my country is under an illegal military occupation, and the occupiers operate an apartheid racist regime every day, it felt that zwift were complicit in their crimes, particularly when riders of the ilegal occupiers cycle so freely with their flags on show. Please fix this: I am a human, me and my home land do exist despite the occupier trying to erase our existence and their heinous crimes from history. Thank you.
In the longer term, how about expanding your Zwift worlds and developing a course through the hills of Rwanda to support ‘Team Africa Rising’ This could be a way to genuinely support young black cyclists
To those who are generally surprised or against this action that Zwift is taking there are many good books to learn more about what is happening to the black American community. Schools in the U.S. generally skip over voices like James Baldwin, and only show the more filtered voice of MLK or more radical voice of Malcom. The simple fact is that many, many black communities live in what are called food deserts. They are ~3x more likely to die of Covid. Infant mortality rates are around twice that of white Americans. They are 6.4x more likely to be taken to prison, and many prisoners spend >6 months in jail without even being charged a crime. It’s very difficult to look at our past as a country. Not experiencing those statistics, or in other words, being white, is indeed a privilege, and not speaking out in favor of BLM is indeed racist. And if that makes you angry I highly encourage you read the book White Fragility. Of course, all lives matter. That’s actually exactly the point. If you think all lives matter, you will be proclaiming black lives matter, because they are the ones dying, being confined, and being actively attacked. How thin can your humanity be if it skips school the day it becomes inconvenient?
In the longer term, how about developing a course through the hills of Rwanda to support ‘Team Africa Rising’ This could be a way to genuinely support young black cyclists
A memorial ride sounds like a good thing to do.
Perhaps a month-long memorial with two rides per person.
Great start. I see many comments on specific points about whether the donations are good/bad, more skin tones, etc.
I’d love to see you step back and think more broadly about the problem. Zwift can be a leveller, the weather, how rubbish your actual bike, if you have cool shades and helmet, etc, all irrelevant in Zwift.
But that only applies to people who have access to a trainer, space for a trainer (and an environment where the noise from their trainer is tolerated), a device to connect to it… and then they need to be aware of Zwift and what it could mean for them.
How can you support people from communities where this is just not available? This should not be overtly about race or colour, but it will be because poverty is not distributed equally across colour in our society.
Apply your software development principles to this real world problem. Be clear on the problems, get to the root of them. Set up small scale solutions, locally with high staff engagement, see what works, see what scales, and go from there. If it won’t scale but does make a big difference to a local community, be proud of it. Your staff will be and they’ll support it, who knows when they move on, they may take it to their next employer.
And it doesn’t just need to be about providing access to Watopia. Imagine taking a 10 year old girl sharing a 2 bed apartment with a family of 6, who can’t see the point of school. Showing her how studying maths, science etc, can get her building something as cool as group meet-ups. A programme with that goal (to encourage a thirst for education) would do more to resolve the problems than a donation to charity.