[MichaelZWilliamson] Well, both.God, what a dumpster fire.
Greta is home-schooled, so the BS claim that "she turned her parents around on the climate" is BS. They had to allow it, feed it, and encourage it. Though of course, they taught her a lot of propaganda. No actual science like the chemistry of carbon sequestration, thermodynamics, electromagnetic frequency absorption, etc.
They claim she's Asperger's, but apparently that's her younger sister. Greta looks more like a victim of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Just how many wild parties did her "opera singer" mother go to?
Then, she's vegan, which in children is provably damaging to brain development and drops your IQ. Add that to the above, and this teenager is credibly an idiot studying to be a moron.
And what is her message?
"You have to do something."
...I'll point out here that that attitude is TEXTBOOK "liberal." "X is a problem, do something!" "We're doing Y." "Y is all wrong! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!" "Okay, we're doing Z." "CAN'T YOU EVER GET IT RIGHT? DO SOMETHING ELSE!"
And the predictable response is:
"Shame on you for attacking a child."
Well, were people attacking a child, it is true that would be wrong. But that's not what is happening here.
First, if you stick yourself into an adult conversation, as a young adult, you should be expected to be treated like an adult. This means you should have education, presentation, a description of a problem, and a proposed solution. Otherwise, yes, you may get treated like a child.
...Now, Greta and her whole presentation are carefully crafted. I want you to consider this parallel:
There is a short video that shows an Israeli man revving his engine through a group of presumably Palestinian teenagers. What a monster!
Of course, if you view the five seconds before the "Attack," it turns out they were throwing really big rocks at his car and trying to jam the undercarriage with a bigger rock.
If you find the two minutes of video before THAT, you see where they're being coached by an adult, provided with a pile of rocks, and cameras set up to capture this "hate crime."
You can find the same in the former Irish Troubles, in Iraq, Afghanistan, other places. Behind the "hate crime," you find manipulated terrorism, using children as the actors because they're more easily manipulated, and you get to play victim cards for them.
Greta's parents, her handlers, indeed the entire liberal apparatus are terrorists. They are willing to use a child to do their dirty work, attack you for responding to the child, and insist you're the bad guy for not giving them what they want. (And in that latter way, liberals are pretty much like children themselves. "But I waaaaant it! It's not faaiiir! Give it to meeee!")
A smart polity does not deal with terrorists. It exterminates them. It is far past time that civilized society stops tolerating liberal terrorism and ends it.