While I’m not a massive fan of the works you mentioned above, I think you don’t do enough to explain why these shows are merely propaganda.

In my opinion a show like the Star Wars sequel trilogy isn’t “just” propaganda just as it isn’t “just” entertainment or storytelling. It’s a mixture of things. Firstly, let’s think about the main motive for any of these shows. Money. The film industry is there to make money.

As such, when creating stories for high value franchises, the writers are prone to pander to what they believe the audience wants and therefore get more bums in seats. Right now social justice is a massive trend online and with key demographics that these franchises are targeting. So the writers of Star Wars and other shows like it, are trying to write what they think the audience wants and what they believe will give them positive press (free PR) in a media landscape that is also dominated by the social justice trend. So in my estimation, the reason these stories are “woke” is rather a symptom of a larger trend of big franchises selling out their storytelling to pander to audiences, a capitalist and shallow motivation, than the other way around, your propaganda model.

If it was propaganda it would be a lot better done.

Also, if the writers truly cared about diversity they would just write good stories with unique perspectives. Examples of successful “woke” series and movies that don’t feel like they’re preaching include: Battlestar Galactica, the Alien series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Coco. In all these examples, story comes first.