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So, there's this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sycgL3Qg_Ak) and it's basically life lessons from various age groups. Like, "Dear 6-Year-Old: Take the training wheels off your bike. It's time to let go! - Signed a 7-year-old" "Dear 7-year-old: Stay Weird. - Signed an 8-year-old.

You start getting wider age gaps after the first few, and it's a really good video. Except for the advice from a 12-year-old. I hate to shit all over her, because she's 12, but this was her snottily said lesson:

"Dear 9-year-old: Don't get involved with the 'popular' kids. They're narcissistic capitalists that know nothing about politics." Some people say it's scripted, I say it isn't, because I've met 12-year-olds that think they're that degree of hot shit and above everybody else.

But still. That statement annoyed the fuck out of me and it annoyed me even more because you apparently can't call it out, because when you do people get all up in arms about how "GROWN ASS ADULTS FEEL THREATENED BY A KID THAT'S JUST SPEAKING THE TRUTH!!"

Thoughts?

I don't expect a 12 year old to know anything about politics any more than I expect the average white 65-year-old.

I read 1984 in sixth grade.

Did I know anything about politics? Hell no! But I sure thought I did. I knew big words and all.

I think the video is scripted as hell but some gifted 12 year old using an outsized vocabulary isn't weird.

Never said it was, though. Just saying 12 year olds don't know jackshit. She probably either was fed a script or is just parroting her parents -- or possibly picked a few things up off of tumblr, idk. I know I based my views entirely on what my parents believed at one time. Didn't mean I understood a word of what I was talking about.

My sincere advice here is to not care what a 12 year old had to say. They probably didn't even know what those words meant.

Really? Do you think 12-year-olds are stupid or something?

No, but I do know that the majority of them are more likely to be parroting words their parents use around them that they only have a vague grasp of the meaning of, than to fully understand narcissism or capitalism.

Absolutely.

Perhaps ironically, while there were some things that I didn't know more about because I just didn't think to look into them, there were several things that I argued with my parents about politically at around 12 because I skew more liberal while they are more moderate conservatives (at the time; nowadays they'd be solidly moderate to slightly liberal). The cool thing is my parents didn't discount my opinions, but we had solid debate, and they made me work for defending my opinions. I won't say I knew everything, hardly, but I knew more on some issues than they did because I cared about them and they went with urban legends/myths.

Yep. "That kid got that right from their parents" was my very first thought when I read the quote.

Tey sort of are compared to how they'll be at 22 or 32, yeah.

Well maybe not stupid...but ignorant and inexperienced.

I can't say for sure, but I do think I knew what narcissistic meant when I was 12. I liked Greek myth too, that made it easier, since I knew the story behind the word.

It sounds like they're trying to be ~sophisticated and ~not like other girls. You can be different from others, but A) If they're not being cruel, why shit all over them and B) how does she know their idealogical leanings?

Like dude, she's TWELVE. I'm not going to judge a twelve year old's attempts to be cool. I'm definitely not going to judge a fucking PRETEEN for her silly tries at sophistication.

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YES.

I'm so thankful there wasn't YouTube when I was a preteen on the internet, and that my ramblings only reached so many people.

I certainly wouldn't call what she's saying "speaking the truth", no. But I also would mainly chalk it up to the usual "think I know it all" attitude a lot of kids go through and shrug it off.

I don't think simply explaining why you'd disagree with that statement would read as "calling the kid out", though. If you went off on some huge foaming rant, maybe, that'd be one thing, but just stating your disagreement wouldn't read to me as picking on a kid or anything like that.

oh my god that's the funniest thing i've ever read

i have no comments that's hilarious

Since when do we care what twelve year olds do and say?

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