I think I finally put my finger on it: minecraft isn’t deliberately isolationist and doesn’t necessarily tap into the sort of get-off-the-grid politics that are so deeply connected to White supremacism in my lived experiences (which are not everyone’s!!!).

BUT. It is far easier for someone with that sort of perspective to play it in some ways? It’s minimally interactive - unless you actively brave the shittiness of people online, it is fundamentally a lone survivor set of experiences.

I think that underlies why the game is so easy to get into (you don’t have to depend on other people to be available to play it with you, or navigate frustrating NPCs), but it’s also why so many people, especially less annoying/hateful/hostile people aren’t central to the culture around the game (which is… very White and male, and other privileges strongly associated with those isolationist fantasies, again in my experiences).