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I didn't know that was what was happening here. Did the article say that?
That is what the culture war is. The effort to create an environment where publishers and artists have a harder time including aspects labeled "woke" because of a loud minority will harass the people involved, review bomb the products, dominate the discourse with bad faith arguments, and generally minimize the potential enjoyment of anyone who is the intended audience. This is what forcing an agenda upon artists looks like.
I think I'm on the other side - I think it's way too much woke agenda in a lot of popular TV shows we watch. Disney competely wrecked a lot of shows because they kept pushing in gender/race related things that felt competely out of place.
I couldn't even watch the acolyte. They wrecked it competely. Many web pages have described what's wrong with it so won't repeat that here, but hopefully you already know what I mean.
I have seen The Acolyte, as I have seen/read/played a majority of what has come out of Star Wars after Disney bought it, as well as plenty of the Extended Universe from the George Lucas days. And I wouldn't consider any "gender/race related things completely out of place" in The Acolyte.
If I had seen The Acolyte without interacting with the Internet, I wouldn't even have considered that people would have a major problem with it. And if The Acolyte had been released as a book or comic instead, I doubt it would've made any waves on the Internet.
In all honesty, I have a hard time believing that anyone accusing The Acolyte of having an agenda doesn't have an agenda themselves. Especially among the content creators who make a living by publicly hating on stuff.