Basically the issue is the nuance between "I don't like this but I will defend it being a thing" vs " I don't like this and it shouldn't exist in a just world", which is what is really being said when one makes points pertaining to morality and not mere taste in condemning things as not being woke or praising things for being woke.So, stop me where I lose the plot here. Is your problem, in so many words, that you think other people are imposing their taste on you? By what means? To what end? What specifically have you lost by someone else drawing a line? And do you have a specific problem with people drawing lines and saying, "I don't want this?" Because in one sentence you condemn that as close-minded, and in the next give it a whatevs.
When things are called discriminatory, sexist, racist, homophobic as a critique and not a description, that's a categorical repudiation of their foundational belonging in a just, good society, because such a one would not have any of these elements.
In actuality, a good society would have ALL forms of art, even ones which some people perceive as having bad elements, because art is there for us to harmlessly explore difficult to approach issues and reach an understanding about them, without having to devote either an inordinate amount of resources to do so (I don't need to buy a plane to feel like flying one, I get to just watch this movie!) or transgress moral boundaries to explore the ramifications of deviant lifestyles (I don't need to be a mob boss, I can just play GTA).
By not understanding that arts' function is to provide a playground for people to try things out conceptually, to explore ideas they do not embrace, by trying to stifle or control it through indirect soft power in the form of moralistic disapproval and the drawing of lines, people are limiting the potential of art and stifling creativity and free expression.
You can not like things, you don't have to make a thing out of it. You don't have to judge or attack others who like them.
Honestly, I mind people forcing you to like something less than forcing you to dislike something, cause in that sense I just see someone else being super passionate about something, which is good, and just coming off too strong. That is more of an issue of degree, and yeah when they go on to call you a bad person without any irony at all that's kinda crazy, but at least it doesn't end up stifling art and causing things to not get made. It just causes lots of bad things to also get made alongside the cool interesting stuff I'm into. I don't mind that at all.I can't answer for Dreiko but I will answer for myself.
" Is your problem, in so many words, that you think other people are imposing their taste on you?"
More people not allowing others their own tastes and pushing that people must like and support certain things by shaming tactics and if just basic insults fail escalation to either target jobs or other things or try to find a way to target people to shut them up or cause them trouble for talking.
People drawing the lines in some cases are going "This piece of media is harmful to society and shouldn't be allowed, it's immoral" or some variation on that.
I mean remember when that was happening with The Dark Knight
But yeah, the whole "harmful" bit is my huge issue here.