Hollywood is not woke.
First of all, people who complain that Hollywood is woke don't know the real meaning of the word; the word originates from "Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, used the phrase "stay woke" as part of a spoken afterword to a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys", which tells the story of nine black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931" (information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke )
Second, Hollywood usually, or even all the time, makes America the hero; for example, American Sniper, directed by the famous actor Clint Eastwood. The movie glorifies US Navy sniper Chris Kyle and US action in Iraq; Chris himself said a notorious thing about Iraqi people, and Hollywood also tried to silence any pro-Palestinian voices. Just recently, Mark Ruffalo was criticized for being antisemitic just for rightfully calling out Larry and David Ellison for "crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance". He said the merger would be "catastrophic for our film industry" due to job losses, higher cable costs, and reduced competition. Paramount criticized Ruffalo's remarks as antisemitic in a formal response. Ruffalo's remarks were also criticized by the pro-Israel groups Creative Community for Peace, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the Anti-Defamation League, as well as by the CEO of Jewish Federation Los Angeles and industry figures such as Haim Saban, Teddy Schwarzman, and Lawrence Bender. In response, Ruffalo called the accusations of antisemitism "appalling and fundamentally dishonest", stating that he was criticising the actions of Netanyahu and executives who supply military technology to Israel, not Jewish people (Source: Mark Ruffalo Wikipedia). He was backed by over 170 Jewish Artists, including Hannah Einbinder and others like John Cusack; let's not forget Melissa Barrera, who was fired from Scream 7, was simply supporting Palestine and called out genocide. Javier Badem also have been huge advocate for Palestinians facing the same prosecution.
Third, Snow White, Star Wars, MCU, or any other movie accused of being woke are just the result of poor writing and exploiting minorities and women for the sake of viewership, nothing to do with diversity or anything remotely fighting for injustice; just like The Odyssey, many people are crying over Helen of Troy played by Lupita Nyong'o, a Kenyan-Mexican actress, which the previous Halen was played by Diane Kruger a German actress in 2004 Troy film, people wanted Halen in Odyssey to look like Diane Kruger one because she look blonde but Homer Odyssey don't say how Halen look like also Greek women would have fairly Medierranean skin as we also called it Olive skin which many Arab or Latina women have simliar skin tone, but Blonde was just adaptation from the story because at the end of the day The Odyssey just like lliad or 1984 or Harry Potter it just a fictional story, nothing real take place unlike Greco-Persian Wars which did happend
Conclusion: Had Hollywood truly woke, it would allow artists to express support for human rights in Palestine; it would allow artists to rightfully call what happened in Gaza as genocide; it would put effort into making quality movies for anybody, especially when they want to make a movie for minority or women instead of poorly written movies for minority or turning male character into female which it just disgusting because it disrespecting women for lazy written, it would promote movie like Palestine 36 or The Voice of Hind Rajab, late night show or msm would bring guest from those movie actors, especially Palestinian artist or Hind mother who lost her daughter to evil zionist terrorist which supproted by DC and Hollywood after all "Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA" - Jack Valenti (former MPAA President), it would called out Jerry Seinfield or Helen Mirren who said notorious thing about Palestinians people.
Sorry for the long opinion.
GDF about American Sniper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxbiEf654c&t=2s
Reel Bad Arabs about how Hollywood dehumanises Palestinian, Arabs, and Muslim people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-4c54p2yhA
Posted Sep 2, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC