Greta Thunberg hits back at Andrew Bolt for 'deeply
disturbing' column
Campaigner calls
out ‘hate and conspiracy campaigns’ after Australian’s attack
Amanda Meade
Thu 1 Aug 2019 21.43 BST Last modified on Fri 2 Aug 2019
12.56 BST
The teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has hit back at
the Australian News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt for writing a deeply offensive
column that mocked her autism diagnosis.
The Swedish schoolgirl posted a tweet overnight calling out
the “hate and conspiracy campaigns” run by climate deniers like Bolt, adopting
his insult that she was “deeply disturbed” and turning it back on him.
The widely read Herald Sun columnist and Sky News
commentator used his significant platform to take aim at the 16-year-old
campaigner, dismissing her followers as members of a cult and disparaging her
decision to sail across the Atlantic in a high-speed racing yacht to attend UN
climate summits in the US and Chile.
“Thunberg has announced she’s finally going to the United
States, the last bastion of the heathen, to preach the global warming faith to
the Americans,” Bolt wrote. “Of course, she’s going by racing yacht, because
she refuses to fly and heat the planet with an aeroplane’s global warming
gasses.”
Greta Thunberg
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@GretaThunberg
I am indeed ”deeply
disturbed” about the fact that these hate and conspiracy campaigns are allowed
to go on and on and on just because we children communicate and act on the
science. Where are the adults?
The highly personal character assassination published in
Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids repeatedly referred to Greta’s mental health, saying
she was “deeply disturbed”, “freakishly influential” and “strange”.
“I have never seen a girl so young and with so
many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a guru,” Bolt wrote.
“Far more interesting is why so many adults – including
elected politicians, top business leaders, the Pope and journalists – treat a
young and strange girl with such awe and even rapture.
“Her intense fear of the climate is not surprising from
someone with disorders which intensify fears.”
Bolt even described Greta’s younger sister as having “a
spectacular range of mental issues”.
But the campaigner sees her condition not as a disability
but as a gift which has helped open her eyes to the climate crisis.
The teenager, whose solo protest last year sparked the
Fridays for Future global school climate strike movement, is taking a year off
school to attend the summits, on 23 September in New York and 2-13 December in
Santiago.
Bolt said Greta was wrong on climate change because “the
evidence does not suggest that humanity faces doom”.
Natasha Mitchell🎧🎙
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@natashamitchell
B*lt goes for Greta & pathologises her. What
a low blow. Must be feeling some relevance deprivation syndrome to attack a
smart, articulate teen girl who is uniquely & effectively connecting with
the masses on one of the big intergenerational matters for our times. But whatev.
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1156846837707497472 …
Greta Thunberg
✔
@GretaThunberg
I am indeed ”deeply disturbed” about the fact that these
hate and conspiracy campaigns are allowed to go on and on and on just because
we children communicate and act on the science. Where are the adults?
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1:19 PM - Aug 1, 2019
The editor of the Herald Sun, Damon Johnston, did not
respond to a request for comment.
Attacks on the teenager are commonplace in the rightwing
media. On the same day Bolt’s column appeared an anonymous column in the News
Corp broadsheet the Australian referred to Greta as “the pig-tailed
soothsayer”.
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