Lisi Sterndorfer shares from Everyday for Life Canada

"They are exacerbating real problems and turning them into social unrest by using young people who may already be experiencing social hardship and are easily influenced as their foot soldiers. They fill their heads with slogans that they then parrot, all in the name of a ‘stolen future’."

Is our future being stolen? No, hope is being stifled by those in power
The ‘they’re stealing our future’ rhetoric has a long history, and it is no coincidence that Greta Thunberg is currently protesting in France. There is no ground to the slogan. The real problem facing young people today, as with adults, is the lack of hope.
BEHIND THE UPRISING
The ‘they’re stealing our future’ rhetoric has a long history, and it is no coincidence that Greta Thunberg is currently protesting in France. There is no ground to the slogan. The real problem facing young people today, as with adults, is the lack of hope.
There is a refrain that we have frequently heard in interviews and comments over the last few days regarding the violence unleashed by young and very young school kids in Milan and other major cities: 'Young people who see no future', 'They've taken our future away', and other variations on the theme. These phrases, in most cases, smack of rote learning – a little lesson memorised to justify …

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"They are exacerbating real problems and turning them into social unrest by using young people who may already be experiencing social hardship and are easily influenced as their foot soldiers. They fill their heads with slogans that they then parrot, all in the name of a ‘stolen future’."

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