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I still think y'all are making way too much of it.
I remember at school, when I was about 9 or 10 years old: our class did a little play about the dangers of drugs. The adult teachers gave us the information we needed; including the facts and figures, percentages of youngsters who've tried drugs etc etc etc. We kids wrote much of the dialogue (with assistance) and delivered the play at an assembly.
I look back and I consider that we were delivering a political stance: part of the new War on Drugs. We were mouthpieces for an adult political view. But I suspect very few people seeing us would have considered it to be political. We expect kids to take on board, and even subscribe to 'political' stances all the time.
My ex's kid sister, at the age of 9 (when J and I first met) had to make a display for Easter. She had all the little chicks holding protest signs because the Poll Tax demos were going off at the time. I daresay her school wondered if her political parents had pushed her to doing that: they hadn't. Rosie had come up with it herself. She had formed a political opinion.
All I see in that video, is that when questioned as to why her friend had had to move: her parents explained it in terms they understood: political terms. The little girl has clearly found that interesting and disturbing and wanted to do something about it. Yes, some of the script is adult: clearly, when doing this, the kid has looked to her parent for some of the facts. figures and details: in much the same way as we kids expected our teachers to give us access to the facts and figures of drug use.
Just because the little girl has looked to her parent for the details and figures, doesn't make her a 'mouthpiece' for that parent. They've clearly worked on this together. As a parent/child project.
Again: I see no problem with it.
To me this about the cult of 'innocence'. We expect our kids to remain innocent of the adult world. Except of course they can't actually be innocent of the adult world, as they live in it and are affected by its issues.
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