if it's not about race what are all these "woke" comments?
One might not like the aesthetic of the characters or the game in general but nothing of that makes the game woke.
Woke means many things now in addition to race. Yes, race is a sort of minor issue in the Saints Row reboot -- you can't deny that when the protags are of any other ethnicity but white and the antags are of one very distinct ethnicity (they're white!). It's forgivable and something that can be overlooked if it were the only thing being flaunted.
Woke means many things, though.
Woke is masculine women acting tough and blowing white dudes up.
Woke is beta male with very feminine qualities.
Woke is blurring gender norms and having colored hair. Summarized,
woke is all these things front and center and on the big stage; it's political.
You simply can't pretend that people's issues boil down to
good ol' fashioned racism when there are other serious issues that have just been getting steamrolled, politically, for several years now. You may think that homosexuality gained mainstream acceptance the moment the white house got lit up in rainbow colors, but the truth is that half the population has just been getting cold shouldered and steamrolled publicly since that day. That doesn't make the issue disappear. Since then, the ante has just been getting upped, over and over. It went from gay rights and gay marriage to trans rights. And remember, half the population of the US is just getting steam rolled and made to be quiet while all of this is going down.
That's what
woke is.
Woke is a political agenda people are steamrolled with. It gets delivered whether people want it or not, and that's why
woke is a huge problem.