Political Class Activism Eclipsed Quarantine priorities Identity politics submerged climate change as the overriding moral issue in New Zealand, often considered a global weather vane of moral causes. Mass marches switched from the extinction-rebellion climatic catastrophe ones to those vilifying the colonial era and those seen as benefiting from it, then and now. The political-class rendition of this mild-mannered, fair-minded, and considerate nation as being in fact the repository of a bigoted, tyrannical majority, the kindest categorisation being racist, often delivered in the local dialect as “rashe-ist,” writes National Press Club president Peter Isaac. This followed on the heels of…