Nothing about the essay seemed "woke", I haven't heard that age-gating is a woke thing, and it's not uncommon for anti-woke people to say wokeism is a form of fascism.
"Why wokeness really is like fascism" - https://spectator.com/article/why-wokeness-really-is-like-fa...
"Woke Fascism: The Real Threat to Democracy" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75371891-woke-fascism
These result in think pieces like that at https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/10/the-dangerous-myth-o...
"How anyone could believe that “left woke fascism” is actually a thing is staggering. But I have encountered this line of thinking many more times than I am comfortable with lately, primarily among Americans. Sadly, it has become very fashionable in some corners on the internet to bemoan and decry the supposed scourge of leftist “wokeness” and to equate it with the real menace of far-right authoritarianism, violence and brutality. It is a myth that has gained alarming traction."
Without context about the author's political views, I stayed with the surface examination comparing the term "fascism" with a birthday data field added as a response to recent changes to the law.
Do you have more insight to the author's political views?
