Petulant Vandalism

Threatened, Insecure Innocents

New Zealand has got caught up in "wokedness".  A few silly people think it is their right and privilege to destroy whatever they take umbrage at.  It does not matter the target, nor its significance or meaning.  If it's deemed offensive by the Woke Brigade, it must be torn down.

These folk remind us of petulant children throwing hissy fits because their whims have not been genuflected towards by everyone else. 

Here is Winston Peters's take:

"Woke New Zealanders feel the need to mimic mindless actions imported from overseas". "A self-confident country would never succumb to obliterating symbols of their history, whether it be good or bad or simply gone out of fashion", he said.

And "what next?', asked Peters. "If one doesn't approve of war we pull down our cenotaphs? Should we demolish every school that once applied corporal punishment? Should Gandhi's statue be thrown in the Wellington harbour because we don't agree? Should knighthoods to the undeserving be post-humously withdrawn? Do Māori now disown our mixed heritage?

"The idea that statues of Captain Cook, the greatest maritime explorer of his age, be pulled down because of the history that followed him is disgraceful," Peters said. "The woke generation are the equivalent of a person with no long-term memory, stumbling around in the present without any signposts to guide them.

"If a person, like a country, doesn't know where they have come from, they have no way of knowing where they are going", he said. "Deal with it, grow up and read a book".  [NZ Herald]

ACT Party leader, David Seymour also ridiculed the "wokies".

Seymour told MediaWorks: "I think it's just pathetic and I think the inability to stand up for principle and say 'look, everyone's entitled to a view, it doesn't give you the right to be violent, it doesn't give you the right to rewrite history, it doesn't give you the right to believe that your views are more important than somebody else's'.

"Those are the values that make a country great that he should be standing up for, not doing a David Cunliffe - look how that ended."  Cunliffe infamously apologised for being a man while leading Labour to the 2014 general election, which saw the party face a historic defeat.