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Literally everything is manipulation. Nobody questions why this particular girl was allowed to speak in front of the EU. Nobody thinks about why things happen. Who are selected and who is not. What agenda is played out.
If you as a teenager wants to talk to the EU, you think you can just do that? Many questions.
Well since you brought it up, why do you think?
I dont know. I just would like to know why she is treated special and became a world celebrity, since nobody else could do that.
When she first got into activism she was a 16yo child of privilege and mistakenly believed the influential people who organized annual climate conferences actually wanted change.
The neoliberal media used her passion and desire for change to make themselves look good (greenwashing) by taking advantage of her naïveté, and made her famous as a result. She pretty quickly realized what was happening and was radicalized by the experience. She started giving speeches outside the climate conferences to protestors instead of giving them to wealthy neoliberals inside the climate conferences, which resulted in the neoliberal media joining in on the conservatives' smear campaign against her.
Of course, there's no way to know what is actually happening in her head, but the change in her actions indicates a radical shift in her worldview. She has become a truly radical activist for social justice. Using her fame as leverage does not discredit her in the eyes of anyone who supports her cause. It is strategic and necessary for protecting herself and her comrades from retaliation for their activism.