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The Thunberg Effect: Why Some Australians Overheat At The Mere Mention Of Swedish Climate Activist - New Matilda (newmatilda.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Treevan@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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Thunberg is a Swedish resident who speaks English as a second language.

Many 2nd generation immigrants speak better English than 6th generation Australians.

These Australians are not jealous of Thunberg's speech-competence nor do they necessarily want to speak better than her, instead they have a deep-seated bias against people who speak too well.

Greta's accomplishment as an elite English speaker is amazing for someone born and raised speaking Swedish in a non-English-speaking country; even more-so that she probably hasn't spent a lifetime nurturing her English.

Most Australians don't speak clearly and many don't speak confidently or functionally and it's not only tradespeople who are impeded but also politicians, judges, air traffic controllers and doctors - it's across the board.

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[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New Matilda had put out some interesting stuff in the past but if this low tier clickbait garbage by Dean Frenkel is the direction they’re going I suppose I should write them off.

[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Independent Australia also has some questionable articles too lately.

But then ABC is basically terrible and I'm debating whether or not to even bother using them as a source.

That said, I'm not posting these because I agree with it, think of me as a bot just transferring articles and summaries to a link aggregator with minor discernment.

[–] Icaria@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ABC News on the air is okay.

ABC News website? Why? Just... why? Half the time you load it up, every second story is a human interest story about the struggles of being poor, disabled, a woman, or gay. And I don't mean a mix, I mean they seem to have a different theme for each day of the week. Tuesdays are Poverty Porn day, Wednesday Women's Woes, Thursdays it's a slate of disability inspiration porn that's so saccharine and maudlin that I can't read it... and I am disabled. Instead of having to pick the news stories that interest me, it's a struggle just to pick the actual news stories.

[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Oh damn, now I'm not going to be able to resist categorising each day's articles into your Icaria-Dewey Decimal System.