What is a "Woke" Game

[Jaicee]

konnichiwa said:

Jaicee said:

I'm with you in spirit on the topic of political censorship and attempts to pursue it. But on the flip side though, what say you to the now infinite number of "Bud Light moments" conservatives threaten every company and group promoting a concept of diversity on any level today or to the sheer volume of books they're getting banned from school libraries across the country today because of their "LGBT" content? (My favorite example being a book that was briefly flagged by a school library as "sexually explicit" because the author's last name was "Gay" last year. Now that is what I call giving away the game.) What say you to the cancellation of that trans sports episode of the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur right after Trump's recent election win?

If there's one thing this last decade has taught me it's that nobody is innocent of trying to police the thoughts of people they disagree with...and those of their kids. The political skew of cancel culture at any given juncture just reflects who's ideas are more popular at that time, it seems. Of late it's been mostly conservatives who've been the purveyors thereof, capturing the fact that we're in a more conservative moment culturally right now.

Just a few words it is getting late here:

In don't know many of those bud light moments have to look it up but I know that in bud light' case Trump stated that he didn't support the boycott, the marketing team made a huge mistake and the person they used had some light left winged background.  If Trump would advertise company A B or C in a commercial their will also be a ton of people who will not buy from that company anymore it also makes sense....   Bud light basically weaponized inclusivity and they failed and then supported the republicans.

Moon girl Devil, I honestly don't know anything about except that it seems to be the case that Disney(or the production studio) deleted the episode themself before their were was any possibility of criticism from outside...

I am an active booktok member and I hear the stories but can't say much about it because I always have been against the burning, cancelling of books. Bans on school is a bit different depends obviously on the content. Bans in library is wrong obviously, but more I can't say about it, each book that got banned in history has a big backstory that I need to read.

Dylan Mulvaney is a transwoman. That was the entire Bud Light controversy. When people threaten "Bud Light moments" they mean death threats, boycotts, and occasionally physical violence as means to express their disdain for companies or groups supporting things like Pride Month or being a little too diverse for them.

The Moon Girl episode was leaked online and people have seen the whole thing now. I can't say that I agree with its message myself or with its characterization of everyone who finds there to be pertinent biological differences between trans and cisgender women that obviously matter in athletics as hate-driven prejudiced bigots, but I'm also against the company's decision to ban the episode. I don't have to agree with the content to support its right to exist.

I'm not much of a book banning kind of person either.