Supporting higher taxation, more social services and more regulation means you think every character needs to be race/gender/orientation swapped and that minorities are oppressed? Supporting lower taxation, privatization and deregulation means you think Hollywood should respect the source material, and that minorities are on equal terms?
This never made sense to me, why aren't there anti-wokes with left-wing politics? Why aren't there wokes with right-wing politics?
For one thing, you're conflating two different things. Most wokes are left-wing, but it doesn't necessarily follow that most left-wing people are wokes. So how you've laid things out is a little skewed to begin with.
That said, one major reason for the overlap is emotional vs logical arguments. Left-wing is mostly emotional based. Thus all the talk of "empathy." Which, to be clear, there's nothing inherently wrong with, but it's bad as the basis of governance and law.
So there's your overlap; people who want high taxes and more social services want that because they think it's the government's job to take care of people in all ways. So, similarly, they think it's the job of the 'leaders of culture' to make sure everyone of all types are taken care of and represented. As for more regulation, same sort of thing, but also with an element of projection. They think authoritarianism is needed, because they're often the kind of people who are more likely to step all over people. Despite their moralistic arguments, they often lack a true moral foundation, so they think it's the State's job to impose such things.
It basically comes down to central planning versus more free market ideals. So, although it seems weird at first, it does make sense the woke/left, individualistic/rebellious/right setup. Again, it's not like it's a hard and fast rule; you have left wingers who aren't woke (although they're often still at risk due to more agreeableness, among other things), and you have right wingers who do end up doing more emotional arguments and trending toward woke.
That's the core thing: What's the job of government, and what's the responsibility of people? Who is owed what? If you don't think the government owes you stuff (more right wing), you probably also think Hollywood doesn't owe people "representation," so you're more likely to be against woke nonsense.