• hex
    5513·
    2 months ago

    Yep, agreed, but these are teenagers. I did not have much foresight as a teenager, either.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
      301·
      2 months ago

      Teenagers today do. I guarantee there are thousands of kids in that school who know better and would never do this. Being young doesn’t make you racist

      • hex
        612·
        2 months ago

        No, but it does make some less educated. Not everyone is online a lot. Plenty of people just hang out with their friends without learning anything. It’s very possible they haven’t learned why that is so wrong.

        • Djtecha@lemm.ee
          9·
          2 months ago

          Well with the internet I’m sure they now will have an entire life of dealing with those consequences.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
      222·
      2 months ago

      Dumb as I was at that age, I can’t imagine agreeing to do something like that or making friends with anyone who would.

      • hex
        31·
        2 months ago

        Because we are not the same type of people they are? They just didn’t care as much.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          2 months ago

          Yup, if you grow up in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma, there isn’t a lot of racial diversity. So this isn’t something they likely have run into in any meaningful sense, so they wouldn’t understand just how hurtful it can be.

    • kemsat@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Right, the point is to let them be themselves & correct behaviors that society has decided are useless. Gotta give them the freedom to choose so that you can correct it, same as younger kids.