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I like Greta as much as the next liberal, but ngl, this just isn’t news. Reporting Greta getting arrested is like reporting a pizzeria making another pepperoni pizza.

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It’s perhaps the first time she’s actually been charged, and one of the first times using the UK’s new anti-protesting laws and certainly a high profile example. So yes, it is news.

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Source? The article does not say any of that.

edit: After not getting an answer for awhile, I looked it up. Greta has been arrested twice now, and detained three times.

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/why-greta-thunberg-arrested-climate-115413261.html

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And charged how many times?

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Apparently the charge was related to blocking access to the hotel, which, climate issues aside, I don’t think I can say is entirely unreasonable.

Should a mob of neo-Nazis have the right to block entrance to a synagogue? Probably not, and you cannot add “unless it’s for a good cause” qualifiers to laws like these. I imagine she’ll pay a fine and that’ll be that.

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Climate change is the defining story of our lives. It affects every living thing on the planet. This take encapsulates why liberals are derided.

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Every person is free to define the story of their own life, not bow to a requirement to share your values.

Climate change may be our greatest challenge, but no challenge, even extinction, is worth needing to all share the same story.

Your take is why liberal policies still dominate the world. Because freedom does matter very greatly.

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You’re welcome to stay ignorant without encouraging others to do so. This is a mainstream activist that a lot of people want to hear about and follow. So yeah its gonna get reported on.

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A major aspect of non-violent activism is disruption, which frequently comes with arrest. Greta is far from the first environmental activist to be arrested, she won’t be the last.

Ghandi pioneered this. He was arrested too. MLK Jr was actually arrested 29 times in his life. It just means you’re doing a good job of challenging the system, it’s not really out of the ordinary.

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