I was watching a show on Netflix and I was really interested. I went to the Netflix profile to see if they would do a second season since the show was a success. It turns out that in the comments, several right-wingers called the show woke. I watched it and didn’t see anything woke in the series. The protagonists are black, but what’s the problem with that? Maybe that’s why they said it was woke? The show is new and original with new and original characters. Isn’t that what they wanted? It’s confusing for me, because if they’re going to complain anyway, why are they asking for changes?

  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Zero. If you have any minorities at all it’s automatically “woke” to some loud minority of white nationalists.

    Anything that challenges an established norm in even the slightest way is woke.

    Do not try and please these types of people. That is not the kind of world we want to live in.

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      4 months ago

      The types of people we are talking about don’t actually read books, anyway. This is what has always baffled me about these movements. It isn’t like they’re affected by the contents of a book.

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        There are websites that will list “bad” books, including lists of wordcounts of the bad words. That way, you can stay up to date on what to be offended about without actually putting in any effort to form your own opinion.