• Geetnerd@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Yep, looks about right. Fistfights were extremely common in my youth, much more than today.

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      I am staggered that my kids don’t have more horror stories from school and I am starting to think our generation maybe went through a special hell.

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        Yep, I don’t have kids, but I’ve noticed these last couple of generations are nowhere near as casually violent as mine was.

        But then, we didn’t have school shooters, either. Just knuckleheads who liked to fistfight for fun.

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        No. I was bullied as a kid. I’ll say this, life is harder for kids today in so many ways.

        And social media is the new ring of preference for bullying and torment