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Lowenna Waters
Apr 24, 2019
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For the second time, Toby Young has decided to attempt to troll the 16-year-old climate change activist and millennial sensation Greta Thunberg.
This time, he's attempted to troll her because it's been revealed that she's the daughter of a celebrity opera singer and Sweden's 2009 Eurovision song contest participant Malena Ernman, who represented her country during the contest's final.
Taking to Twitter, and sharing a Guido Fawkes article, the right-winger wrote:
Greta Thunberg Is Privileged Daughter of Sweden's Eurovision Star
Do we even need to tell you that the privileged son of a member of the House of Lords criticising someone for their privilege got stone cold rinsed on Twitter?
No, no we don't. Here goes!
Really think you're in a position to criticise someone's privilege?
your dad was in the house of lords and you got into Oxford cuz he made a phone call. gurl please. https://t.co/HTl7vou450— Louis Staples (@Louis Staples) 1556104105
Ah, the perpetual right-wing conundrum.
the double bind of the right, who essentially say the systems which uphold privilege are good (toby young being som… https://t.co/m3Ji9EtA5S— Stan Account (@Stan Account) 1556107985
She is privileged so we can dismiss what she says...
@toadmeister @GuidoFawkes Is “she is privileged so we can dismiss what she says” a thread you idiots really want to pull at?— James Felton (@James Felton) 1556108746
Weaponising familial connections... bold move.
Mate, remember *that* phone call?
Coming from a guy whose main contribution to public life has been sexist tweeting, and who got into Oxford despite… https://t.co/GSIsD43t51— Ragnar Weilandt (@Ragnar Weilandt) 1556108049
You know, that one.
Phew, rich parents.
I was scared when all the scientists said the planet is on fire, but it turns out one child’s parent is rich so we… https://t.co/4kD9wpXgoG— James Felton (@James Felton) 1556108962
Is this man asking to get cancelled?
So if privilege is now such an issue is Toby calling for himself to be cancelled? https://t.co/4hCXqAt0br— Vincent McAviney (@Vincent McAviney) 1556108638
Is this performance art?
Midlife crisis?
There’s probably no fully dignified way of having a mid-life crisis, but obsessively haranguing a 16-year-old girl… https://t.co/FeRDFCIuNo— Hicham Yezza (@Hicham Yezza) 1556110519
This isn't the Toadmeister's first attack on the 16-year-old climate activist. On 21 April, he wondered when someone would 'call her out'.
Just saw a clip of Greta Thunberg on the BBC News saying 'since no one else is doing anything' it’s fallen to her and her generation to do something.
But Western governments are doing something.
Maybe not enough, but that’s a different point.
When’s someone going to call her out?
Sadly for him, it seriously backfired, and the only person who got called out was him - for harassing a 16-year-old.
Greta, keep doing you.
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