About a zillion kids now and in my generation and in older generations, if the internet existed then
Some kids can and always have been cruel.
Yeah. You said it best.
Kids are and always have been cruel. They just don’t know any better, and have to learn. Sometimes the hard way.
When I was 15, my parents took me and my best friend to Hershey Park.
We got lost, because dad didn’t believe in maps.
We stopped an old guy walking along a back road and asked for directions.
He was a bit “Deliverance”.
My friend started snickering and making faces and I laughed aloud at her antics.
Without the slightest bit of break in his conversation with the guy, or even slightly adjusting his position, my dad somehow defied the laws of physics and biology and snaked his hand across the back of his seat and smacked me upside the head.
It was the last time I ever “laughed at” someone’s appearance, even if indirectly.