90 Miles From Tyranny : Swedish Schoolkids Tasked With Defending Greta From Critics as Eco-Activist Becomes Part of ‘Religious’ Curriculum

Saturday, November 30, 2019

Swedish Schoolkids Tasked With Defending Greta From Critics as Eco-Activist Becomes Part of ‘Religious’ Curriculum


“Greta is practically painted as a saint.”

Greta Thunberg is being taught to Swedish children as part of a course about “religious knowledge,” with kids being asked to mock her opponents.

News outlet Samhällsnytt reported that the 16-year-old climate activist is now included in the school curriculum and is being portrayed in an overtly sympathetic light, with the course describing her as an “alarm clock” that “allows us to discuss, talk, and reflect on what is happening to our world.”

According to one student, “Greta is practically painted as a saint.”

Students are tasked with making memes about Greta that mock her opponents and disprove criticism that has been leveled at her.

“In one task, they are asked to find a picture to illustrate the sentence “One simply doesn’t mess with Greta,” a nod to an outdated Boromir meme from “Lord of the Rings,” reports Sputnik.

According to education publisher Liber, including Greta in lessons is “important to constantly offer materials and teaching materials that reflect the contemporary.”
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting a huge mural in downtown San Francisco https://cnn.it/34H42mG 
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To the left, Greta has been exalted as some kind of religious figure but given her recent ominous appearance on a looming mural in San Francisco, others view her as a cult leader.

Churches in Sweden are now ringing bells in her honor, while last year the Church of Sweden proclaimed Greta to be “Jesus’s Successor.”

Last month, another mural of Thunberg was...


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1 comment:

  1. don't you feel guilty of something when you look at that outsized image?
    Me, not so much. sort of like a "1984" ish big sister imagery.

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