This. Let's get real: the context for a game's lead character being a black lesbian would not matter unless it were some schoolgirl fetish type game (which would be considered defensible). She'd be considered anti-male because she is female, doubly so because she is gay, and anti-white because she isn't white, and that is all. The rest is just lame, bullshit excuses for that attitude. Therefore, this hypothetical game must never be allowed onto the market. We all know that that's exactly the attitude and how it is.

1. You shouldn't take my comment too seriously.

But sure, Duke Nukem. Also you can totally have a female protagonist and not be woke. She just needs to be eye candy like Lara Croft in the OG Tomb Raiders.  

First of all, hiring often doesn't really work like this. You often have numerous qualified candidates and any choice of who is the "best" candidate is just subjective. This goes double for creative applicants. It doesn't really make sense to fall back onto test scores and GPA so any choice has to be informed by those intangibles. 

And one of those incredibly important intangibles is who that person is and what experiences they bring to the table. 

Filling a writers room with only the "best" candidates could be creating a bad writers room. Diversity is an integral part of a writers room, because of what it can add to a game, so part of what may make that black lesbian the "most qualified" is that she is a black lesbian. With that she brings experiences that that straight white male likely didn't have and with that she adds something to the writers room that he just can't. 

She can very well be the most qualified candidate not despite the fact that she is a black lesbian but because she is a black lesbian. 

See, I used to play Magic the Gathering and I was kind of bad. My goal when building a deck was to grab all of the best cards I had and put them all together, and obviously that would give me the best shot of winning right? Well, not really. You have to worry about synergies and vision and having cards which fill in gaps. The 10 best cards in Magic the Gathering could all be in the same deck and get destroyed by a bunch of mediocre commons if the commons worked together better. Making games in some ways works similarly. Someone can be really good, but still not be a fit. That could be because they don't synergize well or their strengths are already covered by someone else on the team. 

An individual's identity isn't just some meaningless flavor text written on the bottom of a card, it brings with it experiences which can be invaluable to a project. I think that is a big part of what you are missing. You fail to see an individual's identity and experiences as something that they can contribute and as such I understand the kneejerk to be concerned with diversity. The problem is, when you try to ignore or throw away a person's identity, you miss the value it brings. 

EDIT: I just thought of another comparison I wanted to add. Say a game studio is making a game about growing up in Brooklyn. They are hiring writers and one writer comes in and says "Oh, thats cool. I actually grew up in Brooklyn," would it not be reasonable to say "Hm, because of this person's lived experiences with this topic, I feel they can add something that another person without those experiences may not be able to add"? It is the same with other parts of a person's identity. 

But she HAS to be hot for me to not be woke? Like I cant like Abby from The Last Of Us Part 2 and still not be woke?

Don't think to much into it. The "Woke" argument is literally bullshit and will vary from person to person.

It's literally a childish name-calling exercise for those who cannot or will not try and engage with something or someone on an intellectual level.

Many of them actually? I mean, I love civilization but the game is basically "you win when destroy inferior nations" either figuratively or literally 

The thing is although some have conservative undertones they are not ideological. Something can be conservative simply because the devs are describing the world they know without much thought process. In the same way, a game can be progressive and have left wing values without being particularly ideological

Ideologically conservative games are very rare, from my mind I can Call of Duty is very nationalists and glorify USA army

I would say the needle is more at the progressive side, I mean look to a game like Far Cry 5, I love that game..
But Ubisoft may say the enemy is a cult but when you play it it seems like you fighting against some white religious gun loving fanatics in some midwestern state...it is really on the nose.

COD is weird because the early ones also let you play with the russians and sometimes the Russian campaign was the best one + the last one feels more 
like the A-team + includes some supernatural elements...The realism is a bit gone, starts like a typical COD game but it changes quickly..

I think the most telling point is that you associate people who want to ban Harry Potter as woke.  Now why don't you tell us why you consider those groups as woke or would you put any group that wants to ban anything into that group, cancel a game because of whatever they feel is wrong with it or do you only include the groups you consider woke associated with the word.

That's why I wrote in my first post that woke is hard to define and used the part you quoted 'inclusive' behind 'woke'

If a developer or consultant said he doesn't like white people and decides to not put them a game, why would that be woke.  Would that not be racist? Now what if that same developer says, he doesn't like black or Asian people so he isn't going to put them in his game, would you still support that game?

Can you tell me what developer stated they do not like White people or white people in general since you stated this happen often but unless there is only one developer making a game, I find that hard to believe.

Do you need for the character to be a straight white male dude?  If a game doesn't have one of those requirements are you immediately believing that a team of probably hundreds are all woman, non white or gay deciding that this main character definitely needs to be something other than straight white dude.

It just seems diversity is really getting to you.  You do know that the reason you are seeing more diverse characters is because dev teams are made up of more diverse people.  Creative people probably getting tired of just doing dude bro 1000 so they do something different.  Is it threatening the status quo, you bet but then again, games are reaching a much bigger market today than they use to.