By all modern shithead alt-righters, Skyrim is "ultra woke": It promotes ultimate equality and the ability to be anything you want to be, and freely become someone else later.

Or maaaaaybe people who use "woke" unironically just lack the brain capacity to comprehend even a game like Skyrim. 🤷

Morrowind is a basically the thesis of Things Fall Apart in video game form, with a good deal of Dune. It’s an examination of colonialism. Every detail of that game is dripping with politics. The Dunmer are racist and engage in horrific chattel slavery - but does that mean it is right for the Empire to colonize them and take their resources? There’s substantial evidence that your character is a spook sent to “fulfill” an indigenous prophecy to tighten the Empire’s control - is that morally right?

There’s also a hermaphrodite male presenting god who has had hundreds of children with something quite close to the Devil.

Somebody has been hitting the moon sugar a little too hard.

Woke basically applies to the bigots just realizing and getting worked up by things that had existed for decades. Either they've been dozing off for decades or have been "woken" up to it by propaganda with political undertones, and neither speaks highly of their mental faculties.

Although the thing about The Elder Scrolls in general is that it doesn't hand hold you, so you are free to be a racist bigot and not realize it. They don't force realization onto the player, you can happily adopt and become a tool of the point they are trying to criticize, you can willfully remain as ignorant as you would be in real life. In contrast to Starfield, where all companions are like the borg, of one mind telling you or nudging you into what you should have actually done.

What about a politician who sexually harasses an employee and making that employee read their erotic interspecies fan fiction.

Specifying a 'racist conservative' is redundant.

Dagoth Ur is woke as fuck and he will awaken all you sleepers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-K2rUP86M

Even worse, imagine how woke the books of Karl May (not to be confused with Karl Marx) the most successful German author of all time that were originally published in book form in the 1890s [sic] would be if they came out today:

The foreword to the main trilogy would be so spicy that no modern English translation would include it. Like: He would call out the genocide of the native Americans as such and explicitly assign the full guilt for the decline of their cultures to the whites.

He would have the author-self-insert heroes telling people that use the N-word that “Once they scrape you into the ground, your white-skinned body will become straight and exactly as much a stinking carcass as a negro corpse. You will admit that, and now have the goodness to list your other merits!”

He would have trans coded characters being presented in an unambigously positive light.

And so many more incredibly woke things, like trash talking Christians that don’t respect all other humans and do evil shit…

Good, now make it gayer!

In RL Vivek is the racist one.

I'd buy that

In short, exactly how it was and how it should be.

Small correction but pelinal was a time traveling cyborg, but being gay is close

Isn't all Daedric Prince genderless? They just assume the form they like, some are just a pile of tentacle.

I miss the time when people realized that fiction, even if possibly metaphoric, is ultimately not real.