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You literally described the opposite of wokeness. To be "woke" is to hold the belief there are systemic injustices in American society, and a need to address them.
Pretending that these injustices didn't (and don't) exist isn't woke.
Exactly, when you try to be “woke” but it’s not genuine, you end up with shit that just makes things worse. Like when you erase one minority by recasting them as a differ minority, or when you add a “woke”character that ends up making the issue worse.
There’s a video I saw recently about a critic taking Snow White apart and there are clear moments in that movie where they tried to be modern and woke but ended up shtting the bed and making the left hate the movie just as much as the right