What pisses me off so damn much is that so much of the criticism directed at her is so intensely personal. Here we’re having a 16 year old girl, who speaks an opinion about her future and the future of the earth and left and right people are commenting that she is just a little girl who should shut up about matters she doesn’t know anything about, that she is a puppet, that it is all an act in the name of propaganda, that she is a hypocrite, that she does not have it hard enough to have an opinion about this subject, that she is autistic.
The whole basis of democracy is that people can speak their opinion. Loads of people vote without having all that much of grasp of the inner working of politics, because they still should be able to speak out about their interests and their interests should be represented. The fact that others might think they are misguided does nothing to change that. Regardless of whether she is right or wrong, Greta has EVERY right to speak about something that could greatly affect her future, and the future of her friends, classmates and peers.
She has spoken on the issue for quite some time, she has protested for quite some time, she allegedly convinced her family to take some steps for bettering the environment etc. meaning there are just as many reasons to assume that she is just as she appears: a girl very worried about the future of her generation because of climate change. To just claim that she is not, is both highly presumptions as well as manipulative, because it mostly used to invalidate everything she says, instead of responding to WHAT she actually says.
And the fact that her aspergers is brought up continuously is absolutely preposterous, that has nothing to do with anything, and it definitely has nothing to do with her stance on climate change. Again, democracy means people can speak their concerns and be heard. Period. The concerns of people with a disorder or disability matter just as much as those of the people who do not have a disorder, and trying to use her aspergers as way to invalidate her voice is unacceptable.
What I am trying to say is, these attacks on her person are the equivalent of kicking the shit out of your opponent in soccer/football rather than the ball, which would get you benched. It is bad form and (in soccer/football) also usually a sign that you are unable to win the game by actually playing it.
You disagree with her? Fine, tell everyone why she is wrong. Don’t tell everyone she shouldn’t be heard.
Verbally attacking a teenager, because she says things publically that you do not agree with, is morally unjustifiable. If you do not agree with her, that is great, please tell us about the things she says that you do not agree with, and why you do not agree with it. But telling people whatever she says is invalid because of the person she is, is absolutely beyond the pale.
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