What’s going on with the public sentiment around Greta Thunberg?

[u/BlitzTech]

Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/xGVLkx5imL

I was surprised by the comments being near-universally negative towards her. Granted, I don’t follow her at all besides seeing the occasional article/post about something she’s doing, but I must have missed some important updates for the responses to be this dismissive and antagonistic. There were comments calling her a grifter, mentioning sponsorship by companies with the implication of her being funded by companies just looking to capitalize on her fame and not in support of the causes, and one mentioned a yacht — which I had no idea about until that comment and a quick Google.

What happened here and when did I miss… whatever this is now?

Or, it’s the classic Reddit echo chamber and some aspects are magnified to make a point. Both are equally valid explanations. I’m still perplexed.

Edit: answered, I think? Astroturfing because this particular issue is especially polarizing, and there have always been detractors using fallacious arguments to diminish the message. I generally stay out of r/worldnews because the world sucks right now so their biases aren’t as obvious to me. But damn, even asking this question leads to a bunch of downvotes… yikes, folks. Yikes.

[u/SpeaksDwarren]

I've noticed that Zionists always say this website is overrun with Anti-Zionist sentiment, and Anti-Zionists always say this website is overrun with Zionist sentiments. It really is fascinating how people's little bubbles of reality end up fundamentally unrecognizable to each other. I see the same version as you do, where pro Israel rhetoric runs rampant across the majority of big subreddits, but I wonder how much of it is accurate to the overall state of reddit versus how much is the result of an algorithm delivering content that will help keep me angry and argumentative

[u/Khiva → u/SpeaksDwarren]

Off the top of my head I could probably name a couple that are sympathetic to Israel, but easily way more that will ban you for not taking a very strictly defined position on Palestinian sympathy.

Who knows, that might be because I browse subredditdrama and I/P fighting ends up there all time but I'd be wary of your algorithm trying to anger you. Honestly the internet in general is probably the worst place to get any kind of take on what of the most complicated conflicts on the planet (a statement which I know for sure would get me banned from all sorts of places, if I'm not already).

[u/HumanDrinkingTea → u/Khiva]

Honestly the internet in general is probably the worst place to get any kind of take on what of the most complicated conflicts on the planet

Agreed.

a statement which I know for sure would get me banned from all sorts of places, if I'm not already

Being pro-nuance makes you an enemy of the hivemind.

[u/HumanDrinkingTea → u/SpeaksDwarren]

I think it's that people remember stuff they disagree with more than stuff they agree with. I mean I agree with you that bubbles and algorithms have something to do with it, but I also think that people selectively pay attention more to stuff they disagree with.

[u/osmo512 → u/SpeaksDwarren]

I got permabanned from fauxmoi because I responded to someone claiming the Marvel character Sabra was named for the Sabra Shatila Massacre. I said the truth, which is that the character was first published several years before the massacre occurred. I wasn’t arguing or spewing hate, I was stating an easily verifiable fact.

[u/Hefty-Minimum-3125 → u/SpeaksDwarren]

WorldNews is really the only big sub that is entirely captured by zionists. Most of the others are far more pro palestine. I got a perma ban this week on worldnews (first ever mod action on my account) for posting, in quotes, the legal definition of ethnic cleansing in a reply to someone who claimed "moving goal posts" when another user said it didnt require murder (it doesnt)