Recently I saw the criticism of "you guys call anything with a female or minority woke", and I foolishly engaged this person in an argument. This person was in their late teens (yes I know it was stupid to bother but I thought I could make him see he was wrong). He just stopped responding to me when I pointed out that there are plenty of female/minority characters that were liked across the board but now we live in a time where we are told that we have to like garbage movies or shows or we are bad poeple.
Honestly to me Woke means endless race/gender swaps, overhyping something because it was written or directed by a female/minority, and the ridiculous overrepresentation of lgbt.
My question is, is it even worth trying to fight against all this or just do like I do and mainly watch or read stuff from 2014 and prior? I follow certain youtubers and if they recommend a new show I'll check it out, but I do wonder what purpose it serves to go after DC, Disney, Star Trek, etc since they have shown that they hate us. One of my favorite nerd rants last year was when Eric July was pissed about the lady who was in charge of the Scarlet Witch show because she said she never read comic books and didn't know who Mephisto was. Stuff like this just pisses me off because if we suggest that maybe she do some research into the lore behind her show we are sexists.
So is it worth it to keep fighting?
Yes and no.
Engage in educate discussion only if the other side engages first, and even then, respect next points.
Do not engage directly, simply notice some stuff that doesn't add up and see their reaction.
If they get defensive, leave it go. If they are responsive, you can proceed.
If someone takes a woke stance, no time wasting, smile and deflect, go on your day. They are only trying to self reassure and won't move from this level.
You must understand that it is mainstream culture, most of those who think like that have entire social circles made of it, girlfriends, families. For them to think different wouldn't mean intellectual exercise, but extremely dangerous wrongthink.
As the matrix says, until they are in, they are enemies too.