I'm not against woke fiction in principle. There are plenty of works out there that I would consider "woke" that I really like, because they're subtle and clever about it and being woke isn't the main point of the story, like Kill Six Billion Demons, for example.
What I don't like is when stories are deliberately written to be heavy-handed and preachy, prescribing certain morals to the audience. With a first-person narrator in a book, this isn't as much of a problem, because the narration literally contains the narrator's biases, so I can let it slide. But when a third-person omniscient narrator shows clear favor to some parties over others, that can get really irritating, really fast. This is what most people mean when they say "I don't want politics in my fiction". They don't actually mean that they don't want politics, because writing a story about people without politics is basically impossible. What they mean is that they don't want the whole thing to be some heavy-handed Aesop that prescribes morals and values without taking a balanced view and showing both sides.
What I really don't like is when unimaginative social justice turds take existing franchises and ride their coattails, bending the story's entire narrative towards their unbearably preachy shit. SJW entryism is garbage. They literally believe that the main purpose of fiction is didacticism, and that if you're not teaching moral lessons, then your story isn't really telling anything at all. That's not true. It is, in fact, patently false. For one thing, people read for pleasure and for aesthetics, too, not just for edification. For another, if it were the case that every story should contain good morals, then it would be impossible to depict acts of cruelty and lawlessness, or villainous protagonists. This is also why SJWs are terrible at writing villains. It's hard to maintain verisimilitude in a story when the antagonists never actually do anything evil. A typical SJW villain is either a mustache-twirling cardboard standup who never actually does anything to merit the title, or else they're hyper-sadistic cartoons, with nowhere in between, and in any case, they have very few rational motivations of their own, other than illustrating the moral of the work.
Over-woke stories are intrinsically propagandistic in structure, content, and plotting. They're not there to tell you an actual story, with interesting events, delightful turns of phrase, and aesthetic beauty. They exist only to pound a specific moral into your head like a hammer. Very often, they'll set up some cartoonish straw man villain who represents whatever the author finds to be evil in the real world, and then, they'll fill out the cast with a variety of special snowflake characters to go beat the villain up. In the end, the villain falls to his knees and he's like "Blast! I have been bested by the Rainbow Woke Troupe! They were just too special after all!"
A good story, in my book, is one that is not afraid to really, really fuck with the protagonists and put them through the wringer. Woke authors don't do that. They don't inflict real trauma on their characters at all, or challenge them with serious problems, or introduce any conflict between them. They carry their characters on a palanquin on their shoulders all the way to the climax and eventual denouement, coddling and babying them and showing them ridiculous favor. Woke characters are saccharine-sweet, unnaturally polite to one another, and shy away from conflict or cruelty of any kind. You wouldn't be able to write dark comedies like The Thick of It or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia if the cast was woke, because the setup requires that the characters show polonium-level toxicity towards each other.
I happen to favor stories like that, where the protags are truly mean motherfuckers who swear, drink, smoke, and brawl a lot. How do you write Charles Bukowski or Bret Easton Ellis-style transgressive narratives if the protagonists are woke? It's not possible. I like me a dirty ol' blue-collar book. Give me crime, give me grime, give me sensationalistic accounts of people being crude assholes to each other, but don't give me this fucking prancing in a poppy field turbo-woke bullshit. I won't fucking have it.
