I honestly don't get the hatred directed at her.
Acting like as if she shot and killed their dog.
Whatever did she do to get so much wrath?
Is she not allowed to speak her mind and show her anger at something that needs to change and end?
The people who I know who dislike Thunberg do so because she is both very inexperienced/naive and expresses her opinion with haughty indignation.
Now, I'm not commenting on her myself, I'm just saying that this is the perception of those who detest her and basically they think she's foolish and incredibly annoying because she's basically coming off (to them) as a petulant child.
I believe this is compounded by the "Nickelback Effect" where the perceived value of the event/person is incongruous with the perceived response. In other words: just like Nickelback is a middling band that is stadium-filling popular, so too is this credential-less child turned into a guru by the public. Because those who hate Nickelback/Thunberg find them baffling, any popularity those people have becomes infuriating.
The people who badmouth Nickelback are just american record company psychopaths. When nickelback first started out they were signed to a danish record company called Roadrunner records and Roadrunner was not owned by an american record company at the time so all the money that nickelback made, none of that went to american record company leeches.
American record companies' business model is that they have to own all musical artists that are good at writing good sounding songs. The musical group Abba had their own record company and so all the money Abba made went to the members of Abba. Abba was negatively criticized by american record company psychopaths because Abba never signed to an american record company.
American record company emplyees are just psychopaths who want to leech onto people who can write good sounding music.
Also, notice how Thunberg pretty much disappeared from media prominence after Biden was declared POTUS. Same for BLM, Antifa, and other useful tools for causing chaos and controversy. What a coincidence. The media wouldn't want to give the impression that climate change was still accelerating beyond control with a democrat in the White House. Thus, Thunberg at present may as well not exist.
shareI think that's a pretty good assessment, but I would add that she was bestowed with this popularity to speak on a topic that has the potential to completely upend the lives of billions of people, yet she was effectively protected from criticism because of her age. Her attempts to shame countries into making massive changes to their economies that would have required massive tax increases, etc. - all because she was offended ("how dare you!") - came across as mind-numbing. It was as if rational discourse was supposed to be thrown out the window because an adolescent girl who can't possibly know how economies operate was upset about an issue.
shareThat's part of what I mean with "the Nickelback Effect." The popularity overruns the perceived value by people who don't like the phenomenon very much. So, I do agree that giving credibility to Thunberg on a national scale is part of what angers the people who detest her.
shareSo we have a single teenager who expresses herself sub-optimally vs multinational corporations collectively worth trillions of dollars who spend untold millions to promote lies about the effects of their products in the destruction of our environment.
I can see where she's the problem (eye roll)
"So we have a single teenager who expresses herself sub-optimally..."
You should shed some light on "single" Greta's background, especially her parents.
Apart from the fact that this unproductive Friday 'movement' motivated countless students to skip school. ☻
Students can also demonstrate on Sunday. 🤘🏽
I'm not saying she's "the problem," I'm answering the question of why some people hate Greta Thunberg with a passion. I don't hate Thunberg. I do find her to be naive and out of her depth - at least when she was "trending" - and that does devalue her opinion for me. But in terms of environmentalism, I do think we're doing a terrible job of caring for the planet and need to do much better. I'm not radical, but I would be closer to Thunberg than "the corporations" in terms of where I'd like to see us take wastefulness and climate care.
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