Those Critics Are Missing a Distinction

How You Can Tell Greta Thunberg's Protests Are Staged | Body Language Mysteries
The Body Language Guy | 18 Jan. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQr9jmaE8Q

0:29 Compliments on your pronunciation of Lützerath.

2:25 I think you are confusing "confrontations" as in riots with "peaceful protests" as in Thunberg's speciality.

I think the German police, already not too popular over displacing a village (let's be fair, Franco wasn't always the best, there was this embalse de Jaca* which took displacing a village, but in the German case I think it was even dissolved), didn't want to get into even more mediatic trouble by being awkward to non-interfering media.

They didn't exactly have to get anyone out of the way, given there was no violence, except on their side and a purely administrational need to get people away.

And if anyone noted her smile while kidnapped, it could be noted that smiling occasions like this one is what she's used to.

3:03 No, their job was not exactly to "neutralise this protest" but only to get the protesters away.

It wasn't a riot, it was more like tree huggers, except in this case it was village huggers.

Your comment says more of a cultural absence in your own country than of some weird twist in the Thunberg story that Germans or Swedes missed.

[Tried to add]

Or, perhaps I should say in your part of the US.

3:14 "perpetually angry" ... do you get that from perpetually rewatching an angry clip of hers?

She obviously isn't.

3:32 Have you heard the expression "passive resistance"?

Your "no resistance" means walking when told to.

The only alternative isn't fighting, there is also such a thing as passive resistance. Like refusing to fight but also refusing to walk.

I'm not sure it could work in all situations, but for some kinds of things, it may have an impact on decisions, and certainly has an impact of impressing people.

4:04 Their orders were to remove the protesters, not to obstruct documentation.

* I keep calling Embalse de Yesa Embalse de Jaca (Embalse means dam). It's 55 km from Jaca.