• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I like Greta but to play devil’s advocate I think 80% of people her age and millennials in general would do as much or more given the same opportunities. Let’s not worship the one activist. There are loads of activists fighting the exact same battles that would probably be lucky if 30 people knew their name.

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      14 hours ago

      Let’s not worship the one activist.

      no one was worshipping the kid, stop reframing reality for your issues.

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      14 hours ago

      Voting is a pretty low bar for having an opportunity to make a difference with little effort, and only 42% managed that in the US.

      What “opportunity” would 80% of people do better? She was skipping school to protest climate change at 15. She made her own opportunities.

      If my 99.999% figure is worship, then the numbers you’re throwing around seem overly dismissive of her efforts, to put it lightly.

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        12 hours ago

        She’s been given stages and microphones and interviews. You think boat rides into Gaza are free? She is given the opportunity to do more, she isn’t inherently better.

        Also, many US States haven’t reported how many of which age groups voted, it’s difficult to find any data on the subject compared to who they voted for and other demographic labels like ethnicity or gender. There are some claims that 18 to 29yo were 47% voter turnout but only a fraction of those are considered millennial and voter turnout increases with degree level. And Greta Thunberg isn’t from the US, she is from Sweden.

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          5 hours ago

          Yes, because she established herself as an outstanding activist. You act like she stumbled across a “famous activist” position on LinkedIn and has been half-assing it the whole time which is an absurd characterization of what she has done with her life.

          Nobody is saying she “better” than you or your activist buddies, but she deserves a bit more respect for what she has accomplished than “bottom 20% of activists”