why is what everyone's getting out of this whole berdly nonsense "kids can be shitty, racist, ableist, terrible fucking people and adults dont have the right to judge them even if they're actively hurting everyone around them"
i mean i get why but still
"grownups can't hate kids for being bullies and abusers to other kids" is like. such a cop out. let kids be kids is about letting them get grungy and slimey and play fortnite and make lolrandom jokes not about "oh yeah everyone abuses any advantage they have to get power over their peers at any cost when they're twelve, stopping them from doing that is treating them like adults (who are the only people who are responsible for their actions)"