If your counter to a critique of wokeness is to insist that there's no proper definition of woke therefore its somehow a nonsense word or it doesn't count, there's a logical fallacy in your argument. The fallacy is appeal to dictionary. It means that you are appealing to the authority of the dictionary (or even a textbook by scholars or academics) to define a concept.
That's not how concepts and ideas work.
If you put a hundred people in a room and show them a movie, then ask them to tell you what's woke about it, you'll get a consensus, with some margin of error.
Woke trash ultimately means art is passed on to new creators who have no respect for the source material, and they are the wrong creators for that art.
They:
1 don't actually like the art or source material, or sometimes the fans
2 change the art in a way that makes it unrecognizable to the source material, and maybe incompatible with the source material
3 insert something new that's incompatible with the source material or focus on something minor from the source material and make it a predominant feature
Metaphorically speaking, they promise a breakfast of eggs and bacon, but they deliver waffles instead, and the waffles suck. Disney said they would make Star Wars and delivered something that is at best a bad imitation and at worse a mockery of it.
Woke is ideas, beliefs, and values that oppose traditional ideas, beliefs, values. Most classic art has tradition in it. It's part of what makes something classic. Woke is a usurper that thinks it knows better and tries to invert and subvert everything. Woke is postmodernism and intersectionality. Those are incompatible ideologies with western culture. They are divisive and destructive. The spoil everything for people with traditional values while making nothing that will outlast them. They don't care about the art or the audience; they care about their message.
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