{"id":48747,"date":"2019-10-01T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48747"},"modified":"2019-10-01T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:22:53","slug":"5-stories-the-media-ignored-while-dividing-the-country-with-greta-thunberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48747","title":{"rendered":"5 Stories the Media Ignored While Dividing the Country With Greta Thunberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2019\/09\/5-stories-the-media-ignored-while-dividing-the-country-with-greta-thunberg.html\">5 Stories the Media Ignored While Dividing the Country With Greta Thunberg <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/greta-media-1050x525.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/greta-media-1050x525-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193986\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term pedophrasty is a relatively new word \u2014 not currently accepted by an official dictionary \u2014 but that has a powerful meaning in today\u2019s political and media environment. Pedophrasty is an \u201cargument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look like an asshole, as people are defenseless and suspend all skepticism in front of suffering children: nobody has the heart to question the authenticity or source of the reporting. Often done with the aid of pictures.\u201d We have seen this tactic employed by both the left and the right sides of the political spectrum and it is, unfortunately, highly effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve turned on your television this week, you\u2019ve likely seen 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. No one here at the&nbsp;<em>Free Thought Project<\/em>&nbsp;are climate scientists, so we will abstain from commenting on her agenda. However, neither is she. But I digress. The political and mainstream media machine\u2019s exploitation of Thunberg is a perfect example of pedophrasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Thunberg\u2019s activism actually wakes people up to pollution and incites a peaceful and a voluntarily implemented environmental benefit \u2014 without ushering in a tyrannical climate change police state \u2014 we fully support her endeavors. Wanting to save the world is a noble cause and if children want to try to do that, by all means, have at it\u2014just don\u2019t take away anyone\u2019s life or liberty in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The subsequent sh*t storm that was sparked online by Thunberg\u2019s coverage \u2014 entailing both support and hatred \u2014 however, is a different story. It served as a perfect distraction to things that actually matter in our lives. As videos of Thunberg meeting with Barack Obama went viral (I\u2019ll get to that irony in just a second), extremely important events unfolded around us, which were entirely ignored by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Stories the Media Ignored While Dividing the Country With Greta Thunberg The term pedophrasty is a relatively new word \u2014 not currently accepted by an official dictionary \u2014 but that has a powerful meaning in today\u2019s political and media environment. Pedophrasty is an \u201cargument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141,23485,20818,512,20641],"class_list":["post-48747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-climate-change","tag-greta-thunberg","tag-matt-agorist","tag-media","tag-pedophrasty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48748,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48747\/revisions\/48748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}