Let's say you're right,
@Bedrockgames. Let's flatly say that you're right and players at my table pull out performative discomfort about a series of topics.
Player 1) Claims to be an Arachnophobe, Claims to be made uncomfortable by sexism, Claims to be made uncomfortable by descriptions of sexual assault.
Player 2) Claims to have Depression related to their Mother's Absence in their life and thus doesn't want me to have any Orphans around to remind them of their abandonment issues with their mother.
Player 3) Claims to have an acute Gluten Allergy and thus refuses to eat any Wheat Based Products at the gaming table.
Player 4) Claims to have acondroplasiaphobia or colloquially referred to as "Fear of Little People".
As the DM I know all of these things are absolutely false because I've checked all of their cabinets, refigerators, search histories, and spoken with their therapists at gunpoint to ensure they'd break the hippocratic oath and tell me the -truth- about their purported psychiatric conditions because I'm a completely terrible person.
... who cares?
I run my game with no spiders, no halflings or gnomes (honestly, yes, please, I dislike these races anyhow), no orphans, and have 0 cases of sexual assault in the story which has all characters presented as dynamic entities with gender being ultimately irrelevant. I also make sure Gluten-Free Fad-Diet boy always has a Corn or Potato based snack at the gaming table and he doesn't get anything I prepare that has gluten in it.
Who has been harmed by this? What cultural norms have been debased? What idols crushed and what rituals of atonement must be performed?
Even if each of them is KNOWINGLY lying to me, openly, blatantly, for no reason other than "Social Capital" at the gaming table...
WHO CARES?
It does no one any harm. Even if it gives them some small illusion of "Controlling the Game" what do I care?
What does their Social Capital buy them? The same game I was going to run, anyhow... and... mutual respect at the table...? Social connections that will make the game stronger in the long run?
Trying to guess at people's motivations or the "Truth" about them is not wise. It is arrogant. It is Distrustful.