My favourite “civ is woke now” argument is that district placement emphasizes the local geography’s influence on your civilization, which is marxist and woke. And like… how the fuck were you playing civ before? Even without civ VI forcing you to be more mindful of it geography is obviously always huge in a 4X. It’s literally the first 3 Xs! And it’s the 4th X in any game with remotely interesting combat.
They think the idea that geography and/or climate can shape a civilization is woke. Their idea is that civilizations and culture are something that I guess exists a priori as “good” or “bad”, and “developed” or “undeveloped”. The very idea that a bad crop yield or lack of local resources can shape how a society develops apparently contradicts with the reactionary worldview.
