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Louis Staples
Oct 10, 2019
Since the UK voted to leave the EU, terrible takes have been everywhere.
From immigration to Ireland, no area hasn’t been spared the terrible-take-treatment. Yet it is climate change that has become the latest front in the Twitter culture war – and wow, the opinions are bad.
Brexiteers have made no secret of their disdain for climate activist Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion movement.
Just days after suggesting police should use tasers on Extinction Rebellion climate protestors who were participating in global climate strikes, Guido Fawkes reporter Tom Harwood has laid into Thunberg on Twitter.
gotta say it's a bit rich for Greta to say "and all you care about is money" when she is someone who has never had… https://t.co/tzxokrAG1A— Tom Harwood (@Tom Harwood) 1570618162
Naturally, people on Twitter pointed out the obvious point – that it’s fairly ridiculous to criticise a 16 year-old for not having worked a lot.
Also, Thunberg’s had other things on her plate, like sailing across the Atlantic to school world leaders on their climate failings.
wanting children to work full time to own the libs https://t.co/ZeEmKPxpwL— Abby Tomlinson (@Abby Tomlinson) 1570618596
yeah greta, why don’t you go get a proper job like *checks notes* shilling for the far-right on twitter https://t.co/KC7TLS7yd6— iris. (@iris.) 1570631302
This deserves the Ben Shapiro prize for the dumbest utterance of the morning https://t.co/DWIjZO5QzQ— Guy Mitchell 🖐 (@Guy Mitchell 🖐) 1570622507
'This child is not in full-time adult employment so therefore does not get a say on preserving the planet' is an ex… https://t.co/pOtuvqak8r— Mike P Williams (@Mike P Williams) 1570635139
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