Liddle Greta - Time Person of the Year 2019

#26
#26
What power is there in youth? They can't vote, drink, serve in the military, hold a full-time job, or hold political office. Most can't drive, acquire credit, or legally marry.

WGAF what they have to say? The only people the "youth"'s opinion should matter to is their parents, and even then, they should realize that they don't live in a democracy.
 
  • Like
Reactions: ajvol01, Matt2496, W.TN.Orange Blood and 6 others
#27
#27
MG1968 said:
What power is there in youth? They can't vote, drink, serve in the military, hold a full-time job, or hold political office. Most can't drive, acquire credit, or legally marry.

WGAF what they have to say? The only people the "youth"'s opinion should matter to is their parents, and even then, they should realize that they don't live in a democracy.
Click to expand...
In this specific case (and other cases, like the MSD students), having youth be the representatives of your movement is supposed to blunt or get ahead of any criticism of them. To a lot of people, being really critical of kids looks bad or mean. When you use kids, your critics might be hesitant to aggressively critique them, or if they do get aggressive criticism, it "looks bad" to some people because someone is "going after" a kid.

For example, when people critiqued specific claims about guns that some of the MSD students were making, how often did you hear "...but they're just kids" or "how dare you criticize kids who just lost their friends in a school shooting" in response to it?
 
#31
#31
05_never_again said:
In her "defense" (in quotes because I agree, she's a useful idiot) she doesn't fly to any of her speeches. Believe she rides on a sailboat. So she actually isn't incredibly hypocritical like many others.
Click to expand...

I believe that a captain was flown from Europe to the US to sail it back. It was all for show. Burned a lot of fossil fuel to build that thing as well. "Useful Idiot" is perfect for her.
 
  • Like
Reactions: vols40, ajvol01, VolStrom and 1 other person
#32
#32
05_never_again said:
In this specific case (and other cases, like the MSD students), having youth be the representatives of your movement is supposed to blunt or get ahead of any criticism of them. To a lot of people, being really critical of kids looks bad or mean. When you use kids, your critics might be hesitant to aggressively critique them, or if they do get aggressive criticism, it "looks bad" to some people because someone is "going after" a kid.

For example, when people critiqued specific claims about guns that some of the MSD students were making, how often did you hear "...but they're just kids" or "how dare you criticize kids who just lost their friends in a school shooting" in response to it?
Click to expand...

David Hogg is a punk. Greta is a punk. That kid with the MAGA hat was a punk.

They're not immune to criticism and/or condemnation and adults shouldn't be afraid to engage them on an adult level. When you're out there flapping your gums in public, to adults, you shouldn't be allowed to hide behind your youth.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Orange_Vol1321, NurseGoodVol and SpaceCoastVol
#35
#35
MG1968 said:
David Hogg is a punk. Greta is a punk. That kid with the MAGA hat was a punk.

They're not immune to criticism and/or condemnation and adults shouldn't be afraid to engage them on an adult level. When you're out their flapping your gums in public, to adults, you shouldn't be allowed to hide behind your youth.
Click to expand...

The kid in a MAGA hat that stood silently while an off kilter adult banged a drum inches from his face? He's a punk?
 
  • Like
Reactions: ajvol01, azVolFan, 1972 Grad and 3 others
#36
#36
MG1968 said:
David Hogg is a punk. Greta is a punk. That kid with the MAGA hat was a punk.

They're not immune to criticism and/or condemnation and adults shouldn't be afraid to engage them on an adult level. When you're out their flapping your gums in public, to adults, you shouldn't be allowed to hide behind your youth.
Click to expand...
I didn't mean to suggest that adults should be afraid to engage them on an adult level. But they are, and they can hide behind youth, even though in an ideal world they shouldn't be able to. That's why interest groups like to trot out kids as representatives in the first place.

If you're publicly talking about serious, adult issues, then those ideas should be "allowed" to be critiqued, even very aggressively, no matter your age.
 
#37
#37
MG1968 said:
What power is there in youth? They can't vote, drink, serve in the military, hold a full-time job, or hold political office. Most can't drive, acquire credit, or legally marry.

WGAF what they have to say? The only people the "youth"'s opinion should matter to is their parents, and even then, they should realize that they don't live in a democracy.
Click to expand...
youth is wasted on the young
 
  • Like
Reactions: hog88 and MG1968
#40
#40
Thunder Good-Oil said:
The kid in a MAGA hat that stood silently while an off kilter adult banged a drum inches from his face? He's a punk?
Click to expand...

I was keeping my post non-partisan, but there aren't very many examples of teenagers being used as props by their parents and other adults in conservative/right of center debates.
 
  • Like
Reactions: tennvols77
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top