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Guy on SubredditDrama explains why Greta can't just be nice

H IAMA DRUNK_BEAR smug statist generally ashamed of existing on the internet 1067 points 6 days ago I'm saying that what she's doing right now is, basically, diplomacy. And you don't do diplomacy buy offending people. All that does is make people less likely to even listen to you in the future. There's a difference between bringing a lot of attention to an issue and shaming people into action, and actually offending them. I've brought it up 18 million times on this website but this view is one of the most rampant fundamental misunderstanding of how actual affecting cultural and social change works it just rankles me to no end. Popular movements and sentiment respectively have never been and will never be mobilized and altered one way or another by some calm back and forth of reasonable "debate" and "dialogue". To put it simply, the entire point of raising awareness towards a cause is not only to get people's attention, but also to make them very uncomfortable and upset enough to do something about it. The very act of making people upset and uncomfortable also makes them upset and uncomfortable at the actual act itself (and thus by extension the person doing the act; literally every figurehead from Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King Jr. to Mahatma Gandhi were very very unpopular at the time!), but if you're effective eventually you're able to agitate people into either actually acknowledging your point if not agreeing and flocking to your banner, or as more often than not simply deciding that it's worth placating you simply to make you go away (or, as also more often than not, silencing you permanently) What's worse is I don't even have a particularly strong opinion about the actual random Swedish teenager that likes sail boating, but know your political history people! permalink embed save report give award reply

H IAMA DRUNK_BEAR smug statist generally ashamed of existing on the internet 1067 points 6 days ago I'm saying that what she's doing right now is, basically, diplomacy. And you don't do diplomacy buy offending people. All that does is make people less likely to even listen to you in the future. There's a difference between bringing a lot of attention to an issue and shaming people into action, and actually offending them. I've brought it up 18 million times on this website but this view is one of the most rampant fundamental misunderstanding of how actual affecting cultural and social change works it just rankles me to no end. Popular movements and sentiment respectively have never been and will never be mobilized and altered one way or another by some calm back and forth of reasonable "debate" and "dialogue". To put it simply, the entire point of raising awareness towards a cause is not only to get people's attention, but also to make them very uncomfortable and upset enough to do something about it. The very act of making people upset and uncomfortable also makes them upset and uncomfortable at the actual act itself (and thus by extension the person doing the act; literally every figurehead from Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King Jr. to Mahatma Gandhi were very very unpopular at the time!), but if you're effective eventually you're able to agitate people into either actually acknowledging your point if not agreeing and flocking to your banner, or as more often than not simply deciding that it's worth placating you simply to make you go away (or, as also more often than not, silencing you permanently) What's worse is I don't even have a particularly strong opinion about the actual random Swedish teenager that likes sail boating, but know your political history people! permalink embed save report give award reply

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Greta is a kid outraged at indifference. Kavanaugh is a man with issues.

Ed Solomon @ed_solomon The people who got mad at or threatened by Greta Thunberg's anger & emotionalism and called it childish & immature are the same people who applauded Brett Kavanaugh's anger & emotionalism and called it righteous indignation 7:09 AM Sep 24, 2019 Twitter for iPhone 15.6K Retweets 65.8K Likes

Ed Solomon @ed_solomon The people who got mad at or threatened by Greta Thunberg's anger & emotionalism and called it childish & immature are the same people who applauded Brett Kavanaugh's anger & emotionalism and called it righteous indignation 7:09 AM Sep 24, 2019 Twitter for iPhone 15.6K Retweets 65.8K Likes

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Reminder that this man thinks gay rights were part of the nazi agenda

Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza 1d Children-notably Nordic white girls with braids and red cheeks-were often used in Nazi propaganda. An old Goebbels technique! Looks like today's progressive Left is still learning its game from an earlier Left in the 1930s 50.5K t 17.1K 36.1K

Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza 1d Children-notably Nordic white girls with braids and red cheeks-were often used in Nazi propaganda. An old Goebbels technique! Looks like today's progressive Left is still learning its game from an earlier Left in the 1930s 50.5K t 17.1K 36.1K

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The Onion w/ the Hot Take

The Onion Folgen @TheOnion Nation Perplexed By 16-Year-Old Who Doesn't Want World To End trib.al/aauILTD 14:56 - 23. Sept. 2019 2.774 Retweets 10.553Gefällt mir"-Angaben

The Onion Folgen @TheOnion Nation Perplexed By 16-Year-Old Who Doesn't Want World To End trib.al/aauILTD 14:56 - 23. Sept. 2019 2.774 Retweets 10.553Gefällt mir"-Angaben

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She's actually 16

Not enough So ve brought People are in our lead climate Scientist, down syndrome 'taking climate change ser 10-year old, to lecture You! YSS

Not enough So ve brought People are in our lead climate Scientist, down syndrome 'taking climate change ser 10-year old, to lecture You! YSS

Toby Young

Felicity Hannah @FelicityHannah Who do these teenagers think they are, trying to avoid death in a parched, desolate landscape? Do they think they're BETTER than us?! Toby Young@toadmeister Apr 21 Just saw a clip of Greta Thunberg on the BBC News saying "since no one else is doing anything" it's fallen to her and her generation to do something. But Western governments are doing something. Maybe not enough, but that's a different point. When's someone going to call her out? 6:40 AM Apr 23, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

Felicity Hannah @FelicityHannah Who do these teenagers think they are, trying to avoid death in a parched, desolate landscape? Do they think they're BETTER than us?! Toby Young@toadmeister Apr 21 Just saw a clip of Greta Thunberg on the BBC News saying "since no one else is doing anything" it's fallen to her and her generation to do something. But Western governments are doing something. Maybe not enough, but that's a different point. When's someone going to call her out? 6:40 AM Apr 23, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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No Guilt

Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1 Hi Greta, I've just booked some long haul flights for my family to enjoy some winter sun on the beach this Christmas Level of guilt being felt: 0% 2:34 PM Aug 14, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1 Hi Greta, I've just booked some long haul flights for my family to enjoy some winter sun on the beach this Christmas Level of guilt being felt: 0% 2:34 PM Aug 14, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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Accidents

Arron Banks @Arron banks Freak yachting accidents do happen in August . @CarolineLucas Aug 14 Caroline Lucas Bon voyage to @GretaThunberg for her 2-week zero-carbon trip by sail across the North Atlantic She's carrying the vital message to the UN that time is running out to address the #Climate Emergency 5:11 PM Aug 14, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

Arron Banks @Arron banks Freak yachting accidents do happen in August . @CarolineLucas Aug 14 Caroline Lucas Bon voyage to @GretaThunberg for her 2-week zero-carbon trip by sail across the North Atlantic She's carrying the vital message to the UN that time is running out to address the #Climate Emergency 5:11 PM Aug 14, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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Horrible

lan Dunt @lanDunt Greta Thunberg brings out the most horrible s--- in all the most dreadful people. 4:35 AM - Aug 15, 2019 Twitter for Android

lan Dunt @lanDunt Greta Thunberg brings out the most horrible s--- in all the most dreadful people. 4:35 AM - Aug 15, 2019 Twitter for Android

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