Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
When left starts eating left, they can go pretty far down the rabbit hole.
Such as with this article from New Zealand’s Newshub, “Supporting Greta Thunberg is evidence of ‘white supremacy’, activists claim”
However some are questioning however why Greta, a white child, is gaining so much attention over indigenous activists. They say that Greta is benefiting from a “global system of white supremacy” which has given her “privilege and a platform”.
“Y’all need to ask yourselves why you find it so much easier to hear from white people, regardless of age, when it comes to the violence they have caused across the world,” No White Saviours tweeted.
“It is a SYMPTOM of global white supremacy that certain people are HEARD & given a platform, certain people have access to the RESOURCES to be the HEROES that the world will pay attention to.”
“Greta at the UN was the epitome of White Privilege/White power= Save white kids!” another tweeted.
Greta should have grabbed some children from Flint or NJ and took them to the UN. They are impacted right now by environmental terrorism caused by racism, White Supremacy, and racialzed governance. Greta at the UN was the epitome of White Privilege/White power= Save white kids! https://t.co/9QS10GFIWk
— Marley K (@MarleyK20) September 24, 2019
Our GOBAL climate is in CRISIS. We need EVERYONE to care about this & take action. With that said, it is high time that the very people who have caused such problems STOP getting praised & recognized for finally doing the RIGHT THING.
— No White Saviors (@nowhitesaviors) September 27, 2019
So Thunberg caused the problem? And only white people caused it and are all collectively guilty?
Apparently the world is about to blow up and everyone is going to die, but hold up, now, the person telling us that is white, so that’s not good. What?
If a person is crossing the street about to get hit by a car he doesn’t see and a person calls, “Watch out,” do you stop the person because they don’t happen to be the right color?
And when the world blows up, aren’t white people going to blow up too? So don’t they have just as much of a right to speak to the issue?
But, of course, the problem is, even in the claimed emergency, identity politics and hierarchy count. Which maybe suggests it isn’t the emergency that they claim, as some accidentally reveal.
No disrespect to Young Greta, but a quick tutorial on “White Supremacy”…
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WARNING EVERYONE ALL OVER THE GLOBE ABOUT “CLIMATE CHANGE” FOR DECADES!!
There is no mention of them now that this is mainstream. Just Greta…
— Kojo Ebro (@oldmanebro) September 26, 2019
I’m glad to see so many sharing @GretaThunberg’s #HowDareYou message.
However, Indigenous peoples have been saying this for 500 years. So it is not a new message. Her message has political and cultural authority due to white supremacy. https://t.co/YMGPcO7amB
— nupqu ʔa·kǂam̓ (@Skink00ts) September 24, 2019
Decades? 500 years? So you mean everything isn’t blowing up immediately?
Questions to ponder.
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