By all modern shithead alt-righters, Skyrim is "ultra woke": It promotes ultimate equality and the ability to be anything you want to be, and freely become someone else later.

Or maaaaaybe people who use "woke" unironically just lack the brain capacity to comprehend even a game like Skyrim. 🤷

Specifying a 'racist conservative' is redundant.

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.

Small correction but pelinal was a time traveling cyborg, but being gay is close

I'd buy that

What about a politician who sexually harasses an employee and making that employee read their erotic interspecies fan fiction.

Isn't all Daedric Prince genderless? They just assume the form they like, some are just a pile of tentacle.

Somebody has been hitting the moon sugar a little too hard.

Morrowind is a basically the thesis of Things Fall Apart in video game form, with a good deal of Dune. It’s an examination of colonialism. Every detail of that game is dripping with politics. The Dunmer are racist and engage in horrific chattel slavery - but does that mean it is right for the Empire to colonize them and take their resources? There’s substantial evidence that your character is a spook sent to “fulfill” an indigenous prophecy to tighten the Empire’s control - is that morally right?

There’s also a hermaphrodite male presenting god who has had hundreds of children with something quite close to the Devil.

Good, now make it gayer!

Bro, same for Star Trek

Let's hear it for badly written caricatures of racists that are so over-the-top that they allow real racists to say to themselves "I'm not actually a racist, because I'm not extreme as this flimsy caricature of a racist, which is what racists are really like."

I hate the idea that we have to write more well-developed racists just to get racists to recognize that they're, you know, fucking racist, but god damn it, it needs to happen. Skryim is just one of many offenders, video games alone are just one of many offenders as well. Really its the whole US media landscape that has nothing but flimsy, weak caricatures of racists. I personally think these weak caricatures are part and parcel to why it's hard to get racists to have self-reflection because we're not actually doing the hard work of writing realistic racist characters who don't start so extreme. Becoming a virulently violent racist takes time and doesn't happen overnight, and those events that lead to it fall under the umbrella of what's often called "character development."

/end unrelated rant

In short, exactly how it was and how it should be.

I miss the time when people realized that fiction, even if possibly metaphoric, is ultimately not real.

Dagoth Ur is woke as fuck and he will awaken all you sleepers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-K2rUP86M

In RL Vivek is the racist one.