Hello, I’m Daisy Cousens.
Welcome to This Week in Social Justice.
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This week’s biggest and baddest social justice fails include the
Extinction Rebellion climate protestor who suspended herself from a
tripod on Brisbane’s Victoria Bridge, the ABC parody video featuring
a fictional Greta Thunberg Helpline for adults who are apparently
angry with her, and depending on how long I feel like talking about
the first two topics, we may even get time for a bonus topic.
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In yet another climate change protest in Brisbane’s CBD, an
Extinction Rebellion activist has really taken the cake by suspending
herself five metres from the ground on a tripod.
The 22-year old ex midwife Sophie Thompson said she was inspired
by Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
Of course.
Passers by managed to get footage of her protest, and she also live
streamed the event for 40 mins on the Extinction Rebellion facebook
page.
Eventually, as you can see, Sophie was given a choice by police;
either come down voluntarily, or they would dismantle the structure
which she was still in it.
Needless to say, she chose to lower herself down, and was escorted, smiling, into a police
car.
A statement from Extinction Rebellion about Sophie revealed that
she had quit her job as a midwife because climate change had made
her terrified of bringing children into the world, and she believed she
could save more lives as a climate change activist than as a midwife.
Okay.
The group also stated that this was just one of “thousands” of more
extreme but non-violent protests that will take place in the coming
days, as part of International Rebellion Week.
This is a self-imposed climate protest week by Extinction Rebellion
where I guess they will pose even more of an annoyance than they already
are around the
world, so, PSA to all morning commuters out there; make sure you
leave the house early.
In their statement about International Rebellion Week, Extinction
Rebellion claimed, "All people of privilege need to assess their
priorities and take civil disobedience in place of those who cannot, to
force rapid systematic change.”
This protest in Brisbane is certainly not the first.
There have been a string of climate action protests in Queensland
over the last several months, including one in which protestors
glued their hands to the ground in the middle of the road in the CBD.
That one was particularly irritating.
This upping the ante in protests is primarily because of the
construction of the Adani coal mine, which protestors seem to think
will single handedly end the planet, even though Australia only
produces about 1.3% of the world’s total emissions, so even if we
went to 100% renewable energy tomorrow it would have such a
miniscule effect on the temperature of the planet as to be ultimately
negligible, but, you know, whatever.
However, the unique thing about Sophie Thompson’s protest was
that with her on the tripod she held a black umbrella, upon which
was painted, “Climate Denial is Child Abuse”.
Now, this is a tad hypocritical, or at the very least shows a distinct
lack of self-awareness, considering the doomsday rhetoric from
climate change alarmists in the media, popular culture, and what’s
being taught in schools is causing a rise in anxiety among children
and teens that experts are calling eco-anxiety.
According to the Climate Psychology Alliance, which is a group of
psychologists working with the University of Bath in the UK, they are
receiving increasing reports from teachers, parents, and therapists of
terrified children exhibiting symptoms that mirror clinical anxiety,
cause by the fear being bred in them by adults who should know
better about the future of the planet.
In other words, since children and teens don’t have the life
experience, perspective, or, you know, fully developed brain to sift
through and rationalise rhetoric like the earth is burning, the world is
going to end in 12 years, lives are in danger, etc, they are living in a
genuine state of literal terror that they are going to die a premature
death because of global warming.
Along with the anxiety symptoms, these psychologists reported kids
wondering what the point is of going to school or university if they’re
not going to have a future anyway, and in some the condition was so
bad that they required psychiatric drugs to manage their symptoms.
And this Sophie Thompson has the hide to sit there, dangling above
the city, with a sign that says climate denial is child abuse, when she
and her climate change alarmist buddies are responsible for the
psychological abuse of little children and teens by terrifying the living
daylights out them to the point where some of them need
psychiatric drugs?!
Are you kidding me??
The Climate Psychology Alliance isn’t the only indicator of eco
anxiety in children and teens.
There are plenty of anecdotal accounts floating around of adults dealing with the
same thing in their own children
Effing pissed.
Had a 10 yr in hysterical sobs about climate change
tonight, talking about killing himself because his future is hopeless.
These �� #climatechange terrorists targeting children's emotions
should be changed with abuse.
I know that.
You know that.
My 10 yr old will need convincing
Not quite as dramatic but had to deal with 12 yr old certain there is
no future.
Long talk and time together at computer helped ease his
fear.
This indoctrination is horrid
A colleague, a single-parent mum who teaches in Bangkok has told
me of the difficulty she is having with and profound concern she has
for her 11 year old daughter who is beside herself with worry for the
same reason.
Look, I’m going to make clear now what I made clear in my last two
videos.
I am by no means a climate change denier or sceptic.
I am a climate centrist; I’m willing to listen
to both sides of the argument in order to find the best possible solution.
I am, however, against alarmism, extremism, and apocalyptic
preaching of any kind.
It serves no practical purpose and is generally wrong or exaggerated.
And while there is dissent within the scientific community about how
to tackle climate change, which there absolutely is, jumping to those
catastrophic conclusions and exploiting the innocence of children in
order to galvanise adults into joining the “cause” apparently for the
sake of their kids is simply immoral and unhinged.
Enormous social justice fail to Sophie Thompson and her Extinction
Rebellion comrades right here.
Speaking of children and climate change, Australia’s very own ABC,
our taxpayer funded television network, has planted its stake very
firmly in the ground on the issue of climate change with their latest
cheeky video featuring none other than Greta Thunberg.
Now, before we go on, I am as sick of talking about poor Greta and
this climate change stuff as I’m sure you guys are of hearing about it,
but, it is dominating the news cycle at the moment, so I sorta have to
go with.
Anyway, this video features a fictional Greta Thunberg support line
for adults who are allegedly angry with Greta.
Okay, so there are
three big things wrong with this, aside from the
fact the ABC relentlessly claims not to be biased to the left yet puts
out content like this, but okay, whatever.
The first problem is that it portrays any criticism of Great as adults
being angry with her.
That’s not true, while some of the commentary about great has
targeted her Asperger’s and her looks, which is unacceptable to do
to anyone, legitimate criticism of her words and her movement do
not equate to simply being irrationally angry with her.
Second, the video indicates that the people who are “angry” with
Greta are the regressive left’s favourite scapegoat; middle aged
straight white men.
And while they do include a couple of women towards the end of the clip, it is quite obviously
tokenism.
This is bigoted far left identity politics in action,
there is nothing sophisticated or enlightened about it, much
as regressive leftists think there is.
Also, side note, on the issue of middle aged white men allegedly
being the ones predominantly criticising Greta Thunberg, I have been
one of the noisiest critics of Greta in Australia, both on TV and on
YouTube, and to be honest, I’m slightly perturbed the ABC is giving
me and other like me zero credit.
Just a lil bit.
The third thing wrong with the video, which is the most important
thing, is that it conveys the notion that nobody is allowed to criticise
Greta because she is a child.
This is one of the most despicable things about climate change alarmists; they are happy
to put children and
teens on the front line of their movement and dismiss any criticism
of those kids as “attacking” a child.
The bottom line is this.
If you are a minor, and you put yourself out there in the political arena of ideas, which
is a very adult arena, and insist you are taken seriously by adults who
agree with you, as they would another adult, then you have to be prepared
for adults who don’t agree with you to also take you as
seriously as they would an adult.
You can’t have both.
And again, while some of the digs at Greta have been very personal
and as such highly inappropriate, legitimate criticism of her
movement and her actions is not “attacking a child”.
It’s treating Greta with the respect she demands by taking
her ideas seriously and engaging with them on an intellectual level.
So, to any climate change alarmists who shriek IMPRESSION “How
dare you attack a child!” whenever any dissenters open our mouths,
your logic is inherently flawed.
Either Greta and the rest of the climate change kiddies are to be taken seriously
in the adult realm of ideas by both sides, or they are to be dismissed
as children who don’t know any better.
Huge social justice fail by the ABC on this one.
Unfortunately, I’ve talked so long about the first two topics that we
don’t have time for a bonus topic.
But tune in next time; you might get lucky.