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sodium-chloride posted...

I don't get it. She's a kid who's passionate about climate change. Why is she getting so much hate?

Because kids are stupid.

Seeing kids being opinionated about important things tends to spur a "Shut the fuck up kid, you know nothing about the world, and your opinions are worthless" sort of resentment.



VioletMassacre posted...

But it's not "any idiot" getting all the attention, so she must be doing something right.

She's not getting attention because of what she's saying or how she's saying it, though. She's getting attention because she's a teen saying it, when most people assume a) every teen girl is obsessed with Twitter and boys so seeing a teen trying to be political is surprising and thus noteworthy (ie, she's man bites dog, not dog bites man), b) because as mentioned previously kids are stupid, opinionated kids tend to draw resentment, and thus can be exploited for clickbait views and attention, and c) people who agree with the views she's espousing have a vested interest in signal boosting her to exploit that notoriety and use it to support their own views.

The last point is a large part of why a lot of people on any side of a given issue love to take really young kids and put words into their mouths that support their ideology - and why those people are generally shitty people in general and often spur just as much hate and opposition to their cause as they do support. That's especially the case when the immediate reaction is "You don't actually believe that, kid, your parents just told you what to say because they want to exploit you and pull the 'THINK OF THE CHILDREN!' card."

But basically, if she was saying and doing more or less the exact same things but was in her late 20s, most people wouldn't give a shit.



VioletMassacre posted...

Mind you, I don't really know anything about her but it's hard not to see or hear her name everywhere these days.

I literally had no idea who she was before this topic encouraged me to look up who she was and read a little about her. It's relatively easy to neither know nor care who she is, and to avoid hearing her name anywhere.

I suspect there are probably places online where she comes up a lot more often than others, but that says less about her notoriety and more about where you're spending your time online.
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