Greta Thunberg's dire predictions about the world’s climate future have prompted high-profile conservatives to mock her and circulate conspiracy theories about her. zakcheneyrice writes
Greta Thunberg. Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images On Monday night, Fox News apologized to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist, for airing an interview where a guest, Daily Wire contributor Michael Knowles, called her a “mentally ill Swedish child.” Thunberg has Asperger syndrome, and American conservatives have used her diagnosis to cast her as a hapless victim of adult manipulation. “[She] is being exploited by her parents and the international left,” Knowles insisted.
There’s plenty to revile in how liberal figureheads have turned Thunberg into a kind of secular saint, applauding her outspokenness despite their own complicity and frequent inaction, around the very issues she assails them for ignoring. Misgivings about her position as a spokesperson despite the fact that nonwhite activists, many of whose communities are already hit hard by climate change, have beat the same drum for years to little avail are perhaps also warranted.
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