Kulturkampf

[jorma]

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)

i think it mostly depends on how much the movie PR is leaning into the "first interracial lesbian kiss on screen where both persons are disabled!" diversity stuff. 
that's when you start to think that this movie is probably going to suck dick and probably also when people start to predict a "go woke go broke" box office