A word to the woke

Ani O’Brien
3 min readJul 26, 2020

The danger of woke politics is that the adamant self-righteousness that accompanies it blinds people to the weaknesses of their ideology.

Following anti-woke declarations from both Winston Peters and Judith Collins, the most woke among us have lashed out on their usual stomping ground (Twitter) and in their characteristic fashion (with Mean Girls gifs – looking at you Chloe Swarbrick).

Whether the woke want to acknowledge the moniker or not, most ordinary people are finally gaining awareness and rapidly growing tired of it. The left can continue to play purity politics…

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Ani O’Brien

Like good faith disagreements & principled people. Dislike disingenuousness & Foucault. Care about women’s rights & democracy. Opinions my own ⚢