EDIT: Maybe that was true in the 90s. Definitely wasn’t a few years later in the 00s.
No. Wrong. Don’t make me get the spray bottle. Fuck off with that rose tinted bullshit.
My lived experiences completely contradict that.
I went through highschool in the 00s. The term political correctness wasn’t used, but there were massive swaths of teenage assholes running around.
“Saying gay is offensive? That’s fucking gay.”
Day where a bunch of kids are silent to protest the use of retarded as slang? “Can’t you talk? What are you, retarded?”
“I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.” Not meant as some statement about trans-ness, gender, or identity. Dead straight kid meaning they liked looking at girls feel each other up (which was an unfortunate thing that some did for male attention at the time).
The one and only neo-nazi skinhead I ever had the misfortune of meeting was a student at my highschool.
Kids, particularly teenagers, can be exceedingly repulsive assholes. Racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc are not the exclusive realm of ebil adults.
I think the thing we’re getting hung up on here is the language. Are these teenage edgelords really rebellious? Regrettably, I was one of those kids in high school, and so were most of my friends. I guess you could argue that we rebelling against the school and societies authority, but the reality was we were the biggest bunch of loser bullies in the school.
Unfortunately, few of them grew out of this phase, and now they’re just the lamest group of adult men sharing edgy memes on discord.
I’m not saying kids didn’t use shitty language, I’m saying they said it as general stupid shit they always say.
I’m saying kids didn’t blame it on “politics” or “political correctness gone mad” just the same way they didn’t avoid wearing protective gear because they thought it was “lame” not “elf and safety gone mad”
EDIT: Maybe that was true in the 90s. Definitely wasn’t a few years later in the 00s.
No. Wrong. Don’t make me get the spray bottle. Fuck off with that rose tinted bullshit.
My lived experiences completely contradict that.
I went through highschool in the 00s. The term political correctness wasn’t used, but there were massive swaths of teenage assholes running around.
“Saying gay is offensive? That’s fucking gay.”
Day where a bunch of kids are silent to protest the use of retarded as slang? “Can’t you talk? What are you, retarded?”
“I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.” Not meant as some statement about trans-ness, gender, or identity. Dead straight kid meaning they liked looking at girls feel each other up (which was an unfortunate thing that some did for male attention at the time).
The one and only neo-nazi skinhead I ever had the misfortune of meeting was a student at my highschool.
Kids, particularly teenagers, can be exceedingly repulsive assholes. Racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc are not the exclusive realm of ebil adults.
I think the thing we’re getting hung up on here is the language. Are these teenage edgelords really rebellious? Regrettably, I was one of those kids in high school, and so were most of my friends. I guess you could argue that we rebelling against the school and societies authority, but the reality was we were the biggest bunch of loser bullies in the school.
Unfortunately, few of them grew out of this phase, and now they’re just the lamest group of adult men sharing edgy memes on discord.
I’m not saying kids didn’t use shitty language, I’m saying they said it as general stupid shit they always say.
I’m saying kids didn’t blame it on “politics” or “political correctness gone mad” just the same way they didn’t avoid wearing protective gear because they thought it was “lame” not “elf and safety gone mad”