Something that I was thinking about seeing the reaction to the Dead Space remake (TDLR for my opinions on the game, looks alright but an inferior version of the original which you can buy cheaper).
I've seen more and more that media we term as 'woke' (which most of the time we are right about but a few false flags here and there) getting dismissed as us applying our political biases onto a product because of who made it, the characters being displayed etc than valid criticism of an inferior product usually belonging to a franchise that was usurped than built up.
We're risking the same issue the left did with Nazi and racist where it was overused to such a degree it became easy to dismiss. The best way to counter this really is just go tldr than just say 'It's woke'. Quick points to highlight issues (e.g. the writing is terrible, the sound design is poorly utilised) than writing a paragraph to explain your point. If people then respond you can go deeper if they're not being asinine (you only hate it because she no longer has big boobs etc)
So I'm not a hypocrite in this example, TDLR: We're overusing 'woke' that we risk being dismissed easily.
It's a pretty wide category, that's the problem.
If something has hints of it, it gets lumped in there.
There could be, and probably should be more nuance to it, but then we would need more words for it, and woke sorta is a nice big envelope, which doesn't help in that case.
Yeah need to use that word the Chinese came up for Western leftists, any remember what it was again?
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Yeah, there is a real problem of "has a black/gay character mentioned, woke shit" being placed alongside "makes an explicit argument in favor of trannies and has extreme pedo angles."
Like, the first example could happen naturally. Isn't always natural, but plausibly could. The second is absolutely deliberate, and is undeniably woke shit.
Is it?
I interpret "woke" as: captured by the post-modern neo-marxist mind virus and acting with the intent to spread it".
Said virus consisting of the beliefs that a) reality is subjective and created by power, b) systems or hierarchies of which you aren't at the top are inherently oppressive and immoral and should be destroyed or subverted, and c) those "victimized" by said systems should have the most power.
Woke is also closely linked with "queer"; the practice of not being normal for the express purpose of undermining a system or making others uncomfortable.
While all the Woke are Queer, not all Queers are Woke.
It's not broad, it's just ubiquitous today.