Why do pundits of the right fear young climate, gun activists? [View all]
She was sneered at in a Trump tweet last week, but 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg made her case Friday in a one-on-one talk with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and came away saying: "He's obviously not doing enough."
What foundation does she have to speak truth to power? Answer: 500,000 people turned out for the climate march in Montreal. The PM and Canada's Green Party leader Elizabeth May were supporting players.
"Impossible to capture scale," said McGill University student (Garfield High '17) Keenan Simpson, emailing pictures to a friend back here.
The world's right-wing pundits are finding it impossible to capture and demean the message of Greta Thunberg, just as they were flummoxed last year by Parkland, Florida, massacre survivors David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez.
It's not for lack of name-calling. The awful Laura Ingraham has likened Thunberg to young people from the horror film "Children of the Corn." Michael Knowles of Daily Wire, on a Fox News program, called her "a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents." (Fox apologized.)
The conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza even likened the blond Swedish kid to the Nazi's ideal wholesome master race specimens pictured in Nazi propaganda minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels' 1930s propaganda posters.
Why the vicious stuff? Because the kids have a credibility that is impossible to discredit. The right's usual background smears do not work. As well, the young folk are credible witnesses to awful things happening.
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