I think part of the problem is that people don't even work from the same definition of words. To me "woke" isn't simply being concerned about injustice, it's carrying that idea to the level of insanity. Or perhaps another way to put it is that wokeness is a shrill, incessant cry of injustice where none exists. I'm not saying injustice doesn't exist, just that claiming injustice doesn't automatically make it so.

For example, allowing biological males to compete in female sports. Identifying as female or being transgender does not take away the physical advantages of being biologically male which is one of the primary reasons for the separation of many sports by sex (not gender identity). I think the same can be said about public bathrooms. They are typically designed more with body parts in mind than what you choose to identify as (e.g. female bathrooms do not tend to have urinals). Either make bathrooms unisex or go to the one for which you have body parts that match. To argue you should be be able to use whichever one you want defeats the point of separate bathrooms in the first place but it is certainly a woke argument as is arguing biological males should be able to play in female sports.

Another example, assuming someone is privileged just because they are white. If you are the child of a rich black man you are going to be more privileged than if you are the son of a poor white man. It's a racist assumption to start with. Even if it is true (and I'm sure that it is) that racism (mostly past and some present) has caused there to be proportionally fewer rich black people that doesn't mean you should judge everybody's privilege in life by their race. No "justice" is achieved, social or otherwise, by doing so. Not every white person who achieves success did so because someone was racist somewhere. And not being the target of racism is no more a privilege than not being shot in the head. It's not that white people have historically had unfair advantages, it's that historically minorities have sometimes had unfair disadvantages. A subtle distinction perhaps but an important one.

There are lots of other examples but this is a pretty good idea of what I think of when someone uses the word "woke".

And yes, I absolutely believe racism exists and I absolutely believe it is evil. I also think it would be horrid to exclude someone because they are not white or in a wheelchair. But honestly that REALLY sounds like a straw man argument. Can you find one example among a group of D&D nerds where this has happened?

And that guy in the picture above just wants to play a Lawful Evil character. What's wrong with that? It is role-playing after all. Why is he being excluded? Is he supposed to be black guy in a wheelchair or something? But D&D is NOT for everyone. It's ONLY for D&D nerds. But if you want to play and like playing D&D then you are then by definition a D&D nerd. Not sure what skin color and wheelchairs have to do with it though. As a side note, if say 99% of D&D players are white, it doesn't mean it is because of racism. Nerdy white kids (many of whom have now turned into middle aged, sometimes still nerdy white guys) have a different cultural background so its not surprising that they like different things. Sometimes different groups of people like different things and that's ok. I'm not saying anyone should be excluded. Of course they shouldn't. But you can't force inclusion either...as in you must play D&D with us so that we can meet our quota of non-white and/or non-male and/or differently abled players.

Admittedly, I haven't kept up with changes WOTC has made lately but what I read seemed to be along the lines of they wanted to make people report income and some to pay royalties that were making content under their so-called Open Gaming License. Not sure what that has to do with wokeness or nazis. There was a new clause that they could de-license you at any time (presumably for being a nazi?) but since they can change the license at any time they could always do that. In any case, Nazis don't seem to have been a primary motive for the changes.

And how do you privilege your way through D&D? What does that mean exactly? And how does one benefit from the status quo in D&D from a woke perspective?

Sadly, I don't get to play any D&D for a combination of reasons (don't know anybody who plays, don't have the time, etc.) so I could be missing some dark D&D cultural undercurrent I suppose.