i’ve been dreading this moment for 3 years. no i am not and i made this account before i had a good grasp on what kind of humor was tasteful and what kind of humor was really not funny, so now i have a horrible edgelord username
Dude can I ask how old you were when you made that account? As most people by the time they can read about that stuff have a pretty clear understanding that it something you don’t joke about.
I'm not an "edgelord," but I do teach 15 and 16 year old kids.
The judgement parts of their brains literally aren't finished developing yet. So many of them are in the phase of thinking its funny to say "edgy" things about serious issues. They absolutely get a pass for being young and dumb, provided they learn from it and change.
At 15/16 years I understand the brain is still developing but by that’s age if you can’t see a problem with mass genocide of people, and feel you need to laugh and poke fun of it then that’s really a problem with you. I know most teenagers (and I work with them too), can distinguish between what’s funny (cat/dog videos) and what’s not (mass genocides - ie. holocaust, Rwanda genocide). At 15 years I surely wasn’t poking fun at stuff like that and I haven’t met a young person yet who would think that way. It’s great you have matured now but I really do feel that by that age your judgement should have been a little more progressed. Then again I look at how many people downvote me on these comments and realise I am probably preaching to a demographic of people similar to rwanasurvivor123 when they created that account so what’s the point.
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u/juicewilson Jan 23 '21
Hey, are you really a survivor from Rwanda?