Why Greta Thunberg triggers the troglodytes among us

In spending any time probing the blather of bottom-feeders, there's a danger of amplifying it.

The teardowns and tirades against Greta Thunberg aren't
everywhere, but sometimes it can seem like it.

A risk of implying that it's common, ubiquitous even. It isn't. On the whole, it's not as though The Internet has it in for Greta Thunberg. 

The teardowns and tirades aren't everywhere: in my feed they certainly don't outweigh all the love and praise, the admiration and all the go you good things. 

But there's an underbelly. A cruel and creepy world where it's apparently perfectly fine — nay, encouraged — for adults, generally but not exclusively male adults, to shred a 16-year-old to pieces. 

Greta ticks all the boxes — triggers the troglodytes amongst us — in some wholly predictable ways.

Read the story from ABC News by Lauren Rosewarne - “Why Greta Thunberg triggers the troglodytes among us.”