Toot link; transcript:
Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.
Author: JP (@jpbreton@mastodon.social)
The answer I generally hear as to why people dislike young activists, not just Greta Thunberg, is that they overly simplify problems.
But this is usually an argument put forward by people who over complicate problems as a defense mechanism. If it's complicated, I don't have to do anything.
You have to remember that everyone is the hero of their own journey. So when a 90 pound teenage girl says you're doing a bad job at something, you dismiss her, and when you can't dismiss her, you villify her so you remain the good guy. You do this because denigrating a teenager takes only slightly more effort than doing nothing, and infinitely less effort than doing the right thing.
The truth of the matter is that nearly every problem is simple. The complicated part is getting everyone on-board with the same solution.