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Showing Original Post only (View all)Soccer club fires coach for calling Greta Thunberg a 'whore' and the 'right age to take a pounding' [View all]
This whore! A 16-year-old can take a pounding, shes at the right age! Tommaso Casalini, a former assistant Coach of Grossetos Giovanissimi A team, wrote in a post earlier this week. Grosseto immediately removed Casalini as a coach saying in a statement that the trainer was fired for not acting in line with the club, who focus on moral values even more than technical values," according to Football-Italia.
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After Thunberg's riveting speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit last month, the teen has had to face criticism from conservative leaders and religious figures. On September 25, she took on her haters, accusing them of distracting people from the environmental crisis plaguing the world today.
"The haters are as active as ever going after me, my looks, my clothes, my behavior, and my differences. They come up with every thinkable lie and conspiracy theory," she wrote in a string of tweets. "It seems they will cross every possible line to avert the focus since they are so desperate not to talk about the climate and ecological crisis. Being different is not an illness and the current, best available science is not opinions it's facts."
She added: "I honestly don't understand why adults would choose to spend their time mocking and threatening teenagers and children for promoting science when they could do something good instead."
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Soccer club fires coach for calling Greta Thunberg a 'whore' and the 'right age to take a pounding' [View all]
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
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I imagine smart, articulate, gutsy females can be intimidating to some insecure males (the kind
alwaysinasnit
Oct 2019
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