Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

Something that I find always amusing is how random these culture war targets are. Like the Transformers live action movies have been a pretty white franchise. 6 Movies with white leads and maybe some diversity in the smaller side characters but not much. Now the latest one, Rise of the Beast, comes along with a Latino man and a Black woman as leads and nobody seems to care. This wasn't some small movie. This was a 200 million tentpole one, but I haven't seen anyone on the left praising it or on the right attacking it.
Movie itself wasn't a hit but and merely broke even but I imagine that's mostly due to franchise fatigue and not because of the leads.

That's the thing that I find odd. How do people decide what is "woke' and what isn't "woke" when it comes to non-white leads. Just saw the new Exorcist remake trailer and it features a black girl and a white girl, both of whom get possessed. Some of the comments I've seen are that it's woke but...why? Is the presence of a black person in any lead position woke? Or is it woke if you remake something with a black/Hispanic/etc lead replacing the previous white lead? There's this weird sliding scale for this stuff and I def think some people are basically conditioning their brains to view the mere presence of non-white people as wokeness. Not even just in art or media. Black doctor? Woke. Black HVAC guy? Woke. Hispanic nurse? Woke. That's...uh...bad.

it's anti-woke because it dares to place minorities in a compromised position (i.e. being possessed by demons)