Our Woke Rating
We have researched some of the main commercial businesses operating in New Zealand. We looked for some key examples of woke policies and activities, including:
- Virtue signalling, especially in ad campaigns and marketing activities.
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LGBTQIA+ activism and marketing, Rainbow Tick certified, financially supporting LGBTQIA+ organisations and causes (e.g. Pride Pledge).
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Supporting gender transitioning (including surgery). For example, some businesses will give employees paid-leave to undergo gender transitioning.
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Committed to 40:40:20 gender split (40% male, 40% female, 20% other gender/non-binary), yep this is really a thing.
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DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) policies and gender recruitment targets.
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Supporting abortions. Woke businesses will often reimburse some costs for employees who need abortions.
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Integrating Te ao Māori (the Māori world) and Māori spirituality into everything (especially when the majority of their customers are not Māori).
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Evidence of Critical Race Theory, including training courses on “unconscious bias” etc.
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Evidence of Ant-Semitism.
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Pushing “Climate Alarmism”, and committed to stringent emissions reduction targets. Support for Agenda 2030.
How do we rank each business?
The traffic light system is easy to understand and self explanatory:
This simple rating system is obviously subjective, but it’s our best attempt at giving consumers the insight needed to avoid businesses that don’t align with their personal values.
- All
- Extreme Woke
- Not Woke
- Woke
- Woke Lite
Farmers
Foodstuffs
Genesis Energy
Gull NZ
Hallensteins Glassons
Harvey Norman
Jetstar NZ
Just Jeans
K Mart
Kathmandu
Kiwibank
McDonalds
Most Woke and Least Woke Businesses
Most Woke Businesses in NZ
Woke Free Businesses
So what is wrong with Businesses being Woke?
Most people just want to purchase products and services, then get on with their lives. They don’t want businesses shoving woke beliefs down their throats. Businesses should stick to business, not telling customers what to think about social issues.
Any wokeness and virtue signalling detracts from a business’ core purpose, and ultimately passes on unnecessary costs to the customer.
Businesses are free to support causes they believe in. We just believe that consumers should know what those causes may be.