Woke Content Detector's Curated List of Games
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This kind of sucks. There needs to be more context than just a paragraph of text with no screenshots or footage. And going through their Steam Curator page, they have a rather liberal definition of "woke".
There's a systemic problem where people who make lists have autism and want to add as many things to their collection as possible. One way to brain hack around this is to add degrees of severity and graphs and stuff to give your autism something to do while providing more information.
The other problem is most of them quickly are monetarily motivated. DEI Detected and others like him quickly started offering for people to pay to "suggest" him to look into games. Which in all ways is literally just paying a protection racket to either shame a game you want marked, or get a game you love passed.
He literally put the "Ubisoft disclaimer about being a multicultural team of various faiths" from the original Assassin's Creed as overtly pro-DEI, when the entire purpose of it was because they were scared of Muslims killing them for setting it in the Middle East. Which was a huge fear at the time and is the opposite of anything pro-DEI even if the same disclaimer would be so a decade later.
Considering he puts out dozens of reviews a day sometimes, this is almost certainly just a guy asking his discord "is this game woke" and then repeating whatever they say.
Going to be honest, it doesn't matter what the motivation for putting that in a game is.
What matters is that it reinforces the narrative that "multiculturalism/diversity" is good and should be pursued to protect against criticism. Definitely DIE.
The Muslims were literally killing people in Europe over blaspheme in media at the time. By putting it in for that motivation, its acknowledging they are brutish and violent monsters and being scared of them. Something anathemic to DEI as a concept.
That's a possible reading of this kind of thing, but it's not credible to say that's the subtext that will be communicated to the audience.
I doubt even a significant fraction of the dev team would intend your meaning. It's probably like 95% or more people who see this receiving the more overt "DIE = Good" messaging.