Israeli foreign ministry posts video of Thunberg’s arrest; vessels carrying about 500 activists intercepted about 75 miles off coast of war-torn territory

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    Since when is caring about our planets biggest problems and having the platform and reach to try and make a difference “moving onto the next publicity stunt”

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      They aren’t wrong their intention is publicity and a stunt is doing something dangerous which this would qualify for. The issue is slanting it as a negative, all protests are publicity stunts that’s like their whole purpose.

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        “Publicity stunt” has the connotation that you’re only doing it for attention. The commenter is basically saying she’s putting herself in harms way and bringing attention to significant causes just because she’s an attention whore and not because she actually cares about them.

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          24 hours ago

          They are literally doing it for attention, but yes I agree slanting it as a negative is unwise and misleading.

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              23 hours ago

              They are only doing it for publicity. It’s quite literally getting very publicly arrested to bring light to and test the blockade in court as a matter of international law. What other purpose do you think they have?

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                  11 hours ago

                  By what method, if it’s feeding the population giving it directly to Israel and it’ll go exactly the same place. The only difference is publicity which again, is not always a bad thing nor is attention to a singular personality necessarily selfish and in this case it’s fairly obvious to be selfless.

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                    Your pedantry on the usage of the term publicity does not align with how people colloquially use the phrase “only for publicity.”

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                23 hours ago

                … to affect change. If you do something only for attention, you don’t care about other things that happen. You only care about the attention.

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                  22 hours ago

                  And how are they attempting to affect that change? Publicity. Even if you read it most favorably to your point it still doesn’t change anything because she’s invited to these things at this point specifically because of the weirdos that started hating her when she was a literal child voicing her opinion will get upset and it will make headlines.

                  • MsMarvelousMushrooms@lemmy.ml
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                    By bringing awareness and support to their cause. If it’s left in the dark then Israel can do whatever the fuck they want without repercussion. She’s invited to them because she’s known. And I’m sorry last time I checked people would rather listen to someone with reputation rather than any joe shmoe.

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                    “Doing things for attention” means attention for yourself. This is for the benefit of something that is not herself. Understand the difference when you say she’s doing it for attention, she is not. “She’s doing it for attention” and “She’s bringing attention to a good cause” are very different sentences.