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I've seen a lot of posts on Lemmy today arguing that Greta Thunberg is privileged, self-obsessed or self-promoting, that her actions are merely symbolic and useless, etc. I have to wonder whether these are part of a coordinated campaign. I hope we can all recognize someone who cares enough to put themselves in danger for the sake of others.
Yeah, centrists hate anyone that makes their genocide look bad.
I can’t remember the exact quote from Herman Hesse but it’s something like, “A person cannot conceive a quality in another that they don’t also have within themselves.” The reason so many people question Greta’s motives is because they are inherently selfish and Greta’s altruism is impossible for them to understand. The only reason they’d do anything that appears to be heroic is for their own ego or self serving means.
Yes, this also explains why right-wingers always accuse others of "virtue signalling" when they try to do something helpful.
Gotta love that projection
Greta literally risked her life for this. Israel killed ten people on the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla. And Israel bombed the most recent one.
The comments about Greta doing this for self promotion are pure Zionist bots. It is the de-facto Zionist retort after illegally kidnapping Greta in international waters. And the statement has very clearly been communicated from the top down at the Israeli Hasbara department.
It's a good opportunity to block bots, trolls, centrists and bootlickers though
I take my time to request they explain their entire "argument" until they are so frustrated with their own inaccuracies they decide to stop commenting. Just had some fun with that yesterday. Make it clear to those who come after.
Don't feed trolls, please.
Oh of course. They leave dissatisfied each time.
So… Sealioning? That just sounds like Sealioning to me.
Almost. I'm not acting in bad faith and actually want to understand the viewpoint. This last time I was getting empty and irrelevant platidudes to my direct questions, and they didn't like me pointing that out. I've ended plenty of other conversations saying that we clearly have different opinions or values, but I understand better where they are coming from and thank them for explaining it to me.
Edit: I suppose I did sealion at least once back in high school. A girl snarkily asked me, "why are you wearing that?" And when I started to answer, she interrupted saying, "see, I don't really care." I told her that was too bad and she probably shouldn't have asked before following her until I was done with my extended history over my t-shirt.
I don’t wonder at all.