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I would like to discus some hypocrisy i repeatedly see (how original i know). I am writing about how activists when they see someone who supports their political beliefs they see no problem with it; example Greta Thunberg, who only really saw push back about "their a kid their opinion doesn't matter" from detractors of climate activism. Many youth LGBT activists are praised for being so well educated and just are seen as well obviously the youth should have their opinions not be criticized for being too young, but then ironically enough, when the youth says something that the general left disagree with, they argue that the youth is being brainwashed. I just find it insane they dont see hypocrisy of their actions. Myself I think no matter your age as long as your arguments are strong and logically consistent you should be able to argue them.

I have encountered similar cases of hypocrisy, and not necessarily only toward activists who take the “wrong” positions, but also toward those who fail to meet expectations—those activists who have an idea but lack sufficiently solid arguments to support it, and instead of criticizing the individual, blame is placed on their age.

As if there were no people in their thirties or forties whose ideas are supported in an equally vague and incomplete way, or as if there were no young people capable of presenting a logical, coherent, and well-founded line of reasoning.

I can still understand criticism when it is directed at an eight-year-old child whose worldview is filtered through their parents (which does not mean it should be invalidated, but rather that they can be given new information to help change that worldview). But when we are talking about people who attend university… no. They have the tools; if they do not use them, it is simply due to lack of interest or because they have social motivations for engaging in activism. (And there is nothing wrong with that—many things are done for social reasons; people who truly spend their entire lives deeply engaging with a single subject are rare.)