MEDIAWATCH: The woke media’s appalling identity politics coverage of Carmel Sepuloni

60% of journalists are now women in NZ and many are ardent fans of woke middle class identity politics (just check their twitter feeds to confirm that) and so the main lens of journalism in NZ is now identity. No better has this been made painfully apparent than in the woke media’s coverage of the appointment of Carmel Sepuloni. Read The Spinoff, Stuffs and NZ Heralds review of her appointment and it’s all identity politics soaked ‘you go girl’ feminism that champions her being the first Pacific Island Deputy. For the woke, diversity and representation are the only currency, meritocracy is a heteronormative white male privilege and nothing matters more than identity. Which is deeply problematic because a critical analysis of Carmel Sepuloni’s time as Social Welfare Minister highlights how shallow The Spinoff, Stuff and NZ Heralds ‘journalism’ is.