Some Leftists can be irritating

I’m a leftist and I’m active in a lot of left leaning political spaces. I usually jive with most stuff in these circles, but there is one sentiment that kind of annoys me: “children are a marginalized group.”

Like, I understand the sentiment. I agree the rights of children are important and children deserve to be protected. But these people are often like “if you dislike children or want child free spaces you’re discriminatory” or “if your beliefs doesn’t include children’s rights you’re not a real leftist” and it’s incredibly annoying. Like I understand, kids are vulnerable because they’re under the authority of adults, but I don’t think that’s comparable to the hundreds of years of oppression minorities have got through for just existing.

Like kids grow up, they change while minorities can’t change who they are obviously. It’s just incredibly tone deaf. Some of this spaces can just be so exhausting

Edit: Noticed some people bringing this up but yes I do agree that kids who are also minorities are definitely much more vulnerable and marginalized because they are kids. I didn’t mean to ignore that and yes that is very important. I was speaking about children as a whole so my mistake if anyone thought that.