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That’s only part of it. She is also a woman and a foreigner and she is reasonably well-educated. Americans spend more on the war efforts of other countries than

That’s only part of it. She is also a woman and a foreigner and she is reasonably well-educated. Americans spend more on the war efforts of other countries than we do to our own public schools. Fear, xenophobia and intellectual insecurity are part of this phenomenon as well. She is also economically privileged and Americans are increasingly divided by income and income-related health factors like physical fitness and addiction. Taking advice from a wealthy, educated European female is simply not an option without opening the door to some uncomfortable observations. These people make take some unscientific ideas to their graves but they will also take a lot of fear and hatred with them.

malandrew 7y ago
Don't forget that a Facebook glitch a few days ago accidentally doxxed the person updating her Facebook posts, revealing that it's her father, Svante Thunberg, authoring her posts. https://pluralist.com/greta-thunberg-facebook-bug-dad-svante-thunberg/ https://pluralist.com/greta-thunberg-facebook-bug-dad-svante... I acknowledge climate change is a thing and should be taken seriously, but the left does itself no favors by manufacturing a petulant child as its messenger. You need messengers that are credible and aren't just preaching to the choir if you want to make progress in convincing people.
- pavlov 7y ago
  Her primary audience is teenagers. She seems to be doing a good job of convincing them globally.
  - turk73 7y ago
    Propaganda. Teenagers are not intellectually equipped to decide such complex matters for themselves and can be easily swayed into making decisions that are bad for them. The frontal lobe is not fully matured until around age 25--the monsters who push propaganda know this--get them young, fill their heads with bs indoctrination, and then you have them for life. It's the communist playbook! Anyone that takes two seconds to think about Greta Thunberg knows what's going on there. Why do you think 18 year olds are conscripted into armies? This is sad, but communists refer to it as "the children's revolution" or some such, it's a long-time tactic that they have used many times before, look it up. It's pretty consistent for Time Magazine to name ol' Greta Person of The Year given their previous adulation for Adolf Hitler. Great judge of character that magazine is.
- yongjik 7y ago
  It's more like the right picked a "petulant child" as their archenemy, rather than the left picked her. It's not a leftist scheme that Trump is engaging in a twitter feud with Thunberg. The right ignored IPCC scientists, they laughed at Al Gore (for having a private jet - yeah I get that it's a very easy thing to hate), but somehow they can't do a thing to a teenager largely repeating the points already made (and ignored) by IPCC and Al Gore, all their usual propaganda tactics do nothing against her, and somehow that makes the right frothing mad. I guess tasting one's own medicine feels awful. Shrug.
- gurumeditations 7y ago
  “Petulant child”

malandrew 7y ago

Don't forget that a Facebook glitch a few days ago accidentally doxxed the person updating her Facebook posts, revealing that it's her father, Svante Thunberg, authoring her posts. https://pluralist.com/greta-thunberg-facebook-bug-dad-svante-thunberg/ https://pluralist.com/greta-thunberg-facebook-bug-dad-svante... I acknowledge climate change is a thing and should be taken seriously, but the left does itself no favors by manufacturing a petulant child as its messenger. You need messengers that are credible and aren't just preaching to the choir if you want to make progress in convincing people.

pavlov 7y ago
Her primary audience is teenagers. She seems to be doing a good job of convincing them globally.
- turk73 7y ago
  Propaganda. Teenagers are not intellectually equipped to decide such complex matters for themselves and can be easily swayed into making decisions that are bad for them. The frontal lobe is not fully matured until around age 25--the monsters who push propaganda know this--get them young, fill their heads with bs indoctrination, and then you have them for life. It's the communist playbook! Anyone that takes two seconds to think about Greta Thunberg knows what's going on there. Why do you think 18 year olds are conscripted into armies? This is sad, but communists refer to it as "the children's revolution" or some such, it's a long-time tactic that they have used many times before, look it up. It's pretty consistent for Time Magazine to name ol' Greta Person of The Year given their previous adulation for Adolf Hitler. Great judge of character that magazine is.
yongjik 7y ago
It's more like the right picked a "petulant child" as their archenemy, rather than the left picked her. It's not a leftist scheme that Trump is engaging in a twitter feud with Thunberg. The right ignored IPCC scientists, they laughed at Al Gore (for having a private jet - yeah I get that it's a very easy thing to hate), but somehow they can't do a thing to a teenager largely repeating the points already made (and ignored) by IPCC and Al Gore, all their usual propaganda tactics do nothing against her, and somehow that makes the right frothing mad. I guess tasting one's own medicine feels awful. Shrug.
gurumeditations 7y ago
“Petulant child”