Woke Barbie dolls

What sort of political fruit will our current cradle to grave Woke indoctrination produce?

In the Mail on Sunday today, Peter Hitchens points out that Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, has gone Woke. One of the dolls, he reports, ‘is described as a “frontline worker” who “joined forces with other Asian-American medics to fight racial bias in the pandemic”.’

Some readers might find such news trivial. What does it matter if Mattel has joined the growing list of corporations ‘making its peace with the new regime’? To answer this question, let us imagine the life of a little girl in Leeds whose seventh birthday is tomorrow. Perhaps her parents will buy her the Barbie doll Mattel describes, according to Mr Hitchens, ‘as a “frontline worker” who “joined forces with other Asian-American medics to fight racial bias in the pandemic”.’

In September, she will (if the teachers’ unions ever let her back to school) start Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum. In Leeds, this includes subjects such as ‘Empire and Colonialism’, Windrush, slavery, gender bias, and decolonisation. If she chooses to go to university, she will find that eight in ten academics profess to be left wing and students are increasingly intolerant of even minor departures from their religious tenets.

The cultural revolution of the 1960s, and the radical left wing groups that blossomed on university campuses in the late 60s and early 70s, produced political leaders such as Tony Blair, David Cameron and Alex Salmond, who transformed British society when they attained power.

What sort of political fruit will our current cradle to grave Woke indoctrination produce?