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Look at the reaction to Barbie. A female is playing a character has always been female. No race swap/gender swap/etc.

Yet the usual suspects still have a problem with it and are whining about it being woke, a term they still cannot define.

That's the thing about it, and why this topic really needn't be taken seriously. Because it has nothing to do with anything political, or whatever you want to call it. What it is is that there's a group that has, up till about 30 years ago, been exclusively catered to. Now that the universe is not revolving around them anymore, they are throwing a tantrum. They are using raceswapping as a trojan horse because it's an argument that makes intuitive sense, although not if you put any thought into it, but that's not remotely the issue. The issue is that they're not the only ones who matter anymore. And if there is any big scale project that is not catering to them, they'll find a problem.