Pope Zille speaks her truth: Go woke stay broke
22 May 2021
Political is personal: Helen Zille’s latest book details her lived experiences, which our reviewer would rather read in an autobiography. (Skyler Reid)
REVIEW: #StayWoke Go Broke by Helen Zille (Obsidian Worlds)
A few years ago, I wrote in this paper that, on the basis of her autobiography, Helen Zille seemed to be that rarity an honest politician. Having read her new book, #StayWoke Go Broke, I wonder if that was a correct assessment.
I don’t think she’s dishonest about her views, however mistaken, but her way of unpacking the issue of “woke” politics amounts, I think, to a kind of intellectual dishonesty or, at the very least, it’s so selective and prone to over-generalisation and polemical simplification that it can only be seen as deliberately skewed argument.