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Woke basically applies to the bigots just realizing and getting worked up by things that had existed for decades. Either they've been dozing off for decades or have been "woken" up to it by propaganda with political undertones, and neither speaks highly of their mental faculties.
Although the thing about The Elder Scrolls in general is that it doesn't hand hold you, so you are free to be a racist bigot and not realize it. They don't force realization onto the player, you can happily adopt and become a tool of the point they are trying to criticize, you can willfully remain as ignorant as you would be in real life. In contrast to Starfield, where all companions are like the borg, of one mind telling you or nudging you into what you should have actually done.
Unfortunately what I really think is happening/happened with "woke hate" is manipulation for political gain as you mentioned with propaganda.
These people couldn't care less before, other than the religious zealots that would crusade against anything "gay." The political right (I really believe this started in earnest in the US) found a pressure point to use that puts them in direct opposition to what their political adversary aims to achieve (acceptance of all people for who they are). As it stands in the US the right operates almost entirely based off of "whatever the left aims for, make it appear evil. Always oppose all that they do." as opposed to having specific goals of their own other than "shower the wealthy with benefits, remove all barriers to retaining the entirety of profits."
Steve Bannon recently aimed their manipulation at what he described as "rootless white men" through the lense of gaming and societys affect on games/movies. Ever since that started there's been an "explosion" of "this game woke?" discussions in Steam discussion fourms and in regard to movies. Before this manipulation these people just wouldn't care and if anything you'd just see the odd person here or there complain about 2 guys kissing in a specific scene or something. They are made to be even more angry now because they're made to believe it's an affront to them and an attempt to manipulate them and society... Which is "funny" because they are being manipulated, just not by gaming/movie media.
Yeah the real reason they're doing this cultural stuff is that they need a distraction from the fact that their material/economic platform is becoming more and more unpopular every year. So the anti woke/anti immigration frenzy must continue
Dem politicians should point this out more, but their economic program isn't very popular either. I miss Bernie :(
I think what the image is trying to say is no one gives a shit that plays elder scrolls about this sorta thing because it's a Fantasy game. No one needs to boot up a video game to be reminded how unfair and shitty our world is. We go to the game and escape that ( hopefully).
It's not like fiction (including Fantasy) is often used as a means to do social commentary. ^^`
No, you go to the game to play a power fantasy regardless of how unfair and shitty that fantasy world clearly is because of how your status or your skills help you surpass it. The Elder Scrolls goes that extra step to give you the choice to contribute or fight that unfair and shitty to such an extent that people mod it in when the choice is not given, and the player does not even have to be aware of it.
People play videogames for the control, replayability, and often the narrative (which honestly was never The Elder Scroll's strength), not necessarily to escape the world's problems, problems which some games embrace. At a more basic level, games just need to provide gameplay and a player just needs to explore it.
There's no shortage of games where you play as a jackass in a shitty unfair world. GTA comes to mind.
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