Greta Thunberg apologizes for 'against the wall' comment

[JonLP24]

“That's what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language. But of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this,” Thunberg wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

MADRID — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has apologized for saying politicians should be put “against the wall” after critics took it to mean that she was advocating violence.

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Thunberg later said she was making a literal translation from Swedish, in which the expression means to put someone on the spot with tough questions.

“That's what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language. But of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this,” Thunberg wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

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The expression “putting someone against the wall” in Swedish describes a situation when someone is forced to address difficult questions or a difficult situation.

But some right-wing voices on social media interpreted her comment as a call for violence against politicians.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/greta-thunberg-apologizes-against-wall-comment-n1102326?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Fake outrage from the right wing.

[carpetbagger]

1. Because that's how mature people respond.

[mtngirl47]

29. My thought too. n/t

[blm]

2. Feigning outrage. That's standard ops for these soulless thugs.

[marble falls]

3. She has grace and class. A lot of us could learn from her, especially the Orange Shitgibbon.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. She is so powerful, they will not stop until they destroy her

or they are destroyed.

We should all invest every hope and effort left within us to join her, if able.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Yea, I can see how that phrase could be misunderstood

[Faux pas]

6. Funny

I agree with her.

[global1]

7. It's Only Right She Apoligized ......

after all Trump apoligized to her (sarcasm).

[DanieRains]

8. Strength To You Greta

Billions stand with you.

Dont forget.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. I'm outta the loop. What did she say that OTHERS thought she should apologize for?

This is nonsense. Great Thunberg is a teenager. She is not dictating policy. She is a teenager. WTF are people bitching about??

[KPN]

10. They are terrified of a 16 year old girl . That says

it all in itself.

[smirkymonkey]

11. No apology necessary.

They are all pathetic snowflakes.

[abqtommy]

12. +10

[CaptYossarian]

13. She meant "against the ropes". Probably not a big boxing fan.

She's still more mature than these dried up fossils who need a-changin'.

[FreeState]

15. No she meant exactly what she said

“upp mot väggen” literal translation is “up against the wall” but that’s not what it means. In Swedish it means “hold accountable”.

[CaptYossarian]

25. Has she read about the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?

That should get her a Nobel Prize.

[bullwinkle428]

14. I wonder how many of the screaming howler monkeys protesting her can even

speak a second language themselves? My guess is very, very few, if any.

[LakeArenal]

27. We have howler monkeys living across the street.

They do throw poop when scared.

Otherwise, much superior to any Republican.

Better looking and good family monkeys as well.

[paleotn]

16. It still amazes me...

that the right wing snowflakes get so bent out of shape by a teenage girl. They are so incredibly weak and she is so incredibly strong.

[Amimnoch]

17. You know.. the shit I've read from them about her on social media..

I’ll fucking say it.. These politicians who refuse science and are putting our entire civilization, and the human race itself in jeopardy should be put up against the wall. And I do mean it in the way they think she meant it.

And I’ll add all the shitheads that are saying the most DEPLORABLE things about her on social media? Put their asses up against the wall as well.

[coti]

22. Well, they're putting the rest of humanity up against the wall with their denial of reality,

aren't they? Why don't they give a fuck that they're destroying our society?

[CaptYossarian]

26. Luckily, he's building one right now. It'll have a good use.

[Grokenstein]

18. Somebody please alert me when Generalissimo Corpulente apologizes

...for his entire lifetime of encouraging his toadies to commit violence, to this very day.

[Traildogbob]

19. It's the law.

The constitution calls for a wall line up for treason.

[hay rick]

20. I wish she meant "Up against the wall, motherfucker!"

I know she is not calling for violence. Anyone who appreciates both the magnitude and urgency of the climate change challenge and the ineptitude of our sabotaged political system could not be blamed for considering direct action (which can be violent or non-violent).

[Quixote1818]

21. It shows she writes her own stuff when the right wing says she doesn't. nt

[zentrum]

23. Fake outrage indeed.

[phleshdef]

24. That isn't even a second language issue.

I've heard that expression used that way in English.

[treestar]

28. I took it figuratively anyway

I did not see it as calling for violence.

[Stryst]

30. I dunno

I've always suspected that some of these fiends worked for the marketing division of Sirius Cybernetics.

The fact that they're responding to children who don't want to die as if they're being attacked, as if they're in conflict with their own children, tells me all I need to about some of these "adults".

[SQUEE]

31. Perhaps those that love to mention helicopter rides

Should exam their own rhetoric.