You know what would have been "woke"? Doing any of those things BADLY with trash writing. That's the trouble with Bob and his ilk. They don't grok what is meant by "woke" (although to be fair, some of the anti-wokes don't understand it fully either) and say stupid shit like "oh that just means Representation of Minorities and Human Rights etc." Nowadays the Woke Left makes a huge strawman out of what it means to be "woke".
It's the old Motte and Bailey approach.
example:
"Black people built stonehenge!" (the bailey)
"That doesn't seem to have much evidence. In fact it seems a lie."
"Oh what, you don't want us to talk about minorities? You just want us to wash them out of all textbooks??" (the motte)
Or in your example, any pushback against the constant praise of minorities and any questioning of the demonization of whites (the bailey) gets those replies of "we just want representation!" (the motte).
Like many shows of its era, Gargoyles had an "anti gun" episode (Beverly Hills 90210 had a particularly infamous one). It was irritatingly political, but it was NOT "woke".
If anything, even gun nuts agree with its message that guns
are not toys and should be handled with respect.
Let This Be Your Last Battlefield, which very cleverly allegoried the foolhardiness of racial genocide. Good writing makes great use of allegory, as few viewers like being preached to/beaten over the head with [Critical Drinker] THE MESSAGE [/Critical Drinker].
I dispute that LTBYLB was that clever or well done. Kind of like what Raz0rfist said about the lesbian kiss episode of DS9, if it wasn't for the timing in the culture war and the "big moment" on TV it's a really mediocre to poor episode that would be forgotten. Especially compared to other episodes that handled racism way better and more meaningful. LTBYLB has at least striking visuals going for it but I still say kind of sucks writing-wise.
Yeah but what do Oliver Anthony and Louisville police has to do with it? Or is there a police strike that I'm not aware of?
Ok so I live & work in Louisville.
Our police are not striking right now - though you've probably heard about them plenty in the news the last few years.
So the song that was being quoted - the one with the "scab" line is "
Which Side Are you On." Written in 1931 it's about... well a war between union workers and companies.
And I mean an ACTUAL war. Coal mining towns got bad enough in KY and other parts of Appalachia that citizens actually took up guns and started shooting. The union workers vs the company men (like Pinkertons) and law enforcement.
Commies LOVE this period of history because it was a no joke literal class war and as with all other commie things, they grossly oversimplify the history.
And of course any time unfettered capitalism is brought up, they love to bring up coal mining towns as like the inevitability of it all.
Anyway the quote person is essentially calling Oliver Anthony a class traitor.