When is it okay to talk down to people?

[x0x]

To make for a short story. This 20 year old kid was being wise today and we came to ahead and he told me it was unfair that because he didn't have kids, a degree, a good job and was only 20 I shouldn't disrespect him.


It's not like I was telling him to shut up, I was with friends at a BBQ and he kept making comments I felt were......ignorant/uneducated.


Nothing against the kid but.....I'm sorry I don't respect people at that age unless they are serious prodigies.
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[Bohlmann20]

Never. Why anyone would ever think it's okay is beyond me. I don't care how old you are, I don't care what you're degree is, I don't care if you're the CEO of a company talking to the janitor, never talk down to someone.

And I can honestly say I never do (or at least I can't think of any incidents in the past few months where I have), so I'm not a hypocrite in that regard.

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[Dus10]

For the record, at no point in my encounters with x0x did I ever believe he was a teacher.
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[HighHopes]

Here is how I see it.

First try to dissolve the issue politely. (correct them if they are wrong or something)

2nd, if they are persistent and you know they are wrong, just ignore them.

If they are still being rude/annoying, I can see standing up for yourself, but I see the action of "talking down" as an offensive gesture. Telling someone to shutup and leave or something to me isnt really talking down, its just defending your space.

Honestly, this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. I link "talking down" and sarcasm to an extent and I used to be REALLY sarcastic, but I actually think that has fallen quite a bit.
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[biggio7]

Never. There is no point in talking down to people at all. I've dealt with too many people like this in my relatively short life and it is annoying. I've dealt with teachers, professors, bosses and colleagues who talked down to me and others. There is no point in it at all.

Unless it's a TV show and you are Sheldon Cooper or Dr. Gregory House, there is no room to act like them, that goes for anybody. People thinking they are better than others and showing it has turned into a growing issue in this world. People need to stop sitting in their ivory towers.

Just a little rant but it hit a nerve because of my past dealings with people like that and they weren't any better than me.
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[ravens_rool28]

When you do it over the internet.
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[YlionsY]

Never.
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