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Critics argue that modern "woke" advocacy tends to promote a form of social engineering that seeks to elevate marginalized groups at the expense of traditional cultural norms—particularly damaging to straight white males, who are portrayed as beneficiaries of systemic advantage. This shift has been reflected in Disney's recent content, where characters of differing races, genders, and orientations frequently take center stage, sometimes in ways that seem inserted for ideological reasons rather than organic storytelling.