Once again at the heart of the news after her speech noticed before world leaders gathered Monday at the UN, Greta Thunberg continues to divide. While the young Swede has questioned the heads of state and government, accusing them of their inaction in the fight against global warming, the president of the Academy Goncourt Bernard Pivot has directly targeted in a tweet, described as sexist by a large part of the Internet users.
"In my generation, the boys were looking for the little Swedes who had the reputation of being less stuck than the French girls.I imagine our astonishment, our fear, if we had approached a Greta Thunberg," wrote the former presenter ' Apostrophes . A message that provoked many indignant reactions on the social network.
Bernard Pivot praises the "maturity" of the activist
Contacted by Libération , Bernard Pivot assumes his remarks and ensures that he will not delete his tweet. "There are people who do not like it, but there are also many people who like it," he explains about his tweet. "What I mean is that I know a lot of people who are not autistic, and who would not have the guts, the audacity to go up to the UN platform, as Greta Thunberg has done, "he tries to clarify, praising the" maturity "of the girl, and his" astonishing violence ". "Simply, in my generation, we ran rather the little girls or the Swedish girls rightly or wrongly.I imagined the teenager that I was to be in front of this girl.I would have been disoriented, I would have been scared "; he concluded.