An English newspaper has published the names and pictures of a number of men who have made threatening comments towards Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg on social media.
After the environmental campaigner visited the city of Bristol, attracting an audience of thousands who turned out to hear her speech on College Green, The Bristol Post published a list of six men who they had discovered making threatening comments on Facebook towards the 17-year-old prior to her arrival in the UK.
Previously, a former aide to President Trump was slammed over a gross joke they made about Thunberg's body:The six men's names, Facebook profile pictures, and examples of the comments they made were all displayed in screenshots on the newspaper's website Bristol Live.
According to the article in question, the abusive or malicious comments they chose constituted a mere fraction of the "apparent calls for violence or violent intent against Greta Thunberg".
Threatening comments made against Greta apparently include statements like: "Crush the b***h. Sounds good to me. Send her home," and "Her parents need to slap her with a brick," and "She should be burnt at the stake!"
One man apparently wrote: "Can someone grab her pigtails and [Ms. Trunchbull] her over the fence" - in a reference to the scene in the Roald Dahl book and movie Matilda where the abusive Olympian schoolteacher Ms. Trunchbull throws a child by her hair into a field.
Meanwhile, someone else chimed with a xenophobic reference to the shop IKEA, by writing: "Send her back the way she should be: in flat-pack, as that's what Sweden is famous for."
This isn't the first time we've reported on the threats Thunberg has been a victim of. Back in October, a Canadian vandal covered a mural dedicated to Thunberg in abusive graffiti just hours after it was completed.
