finnwolfhardvevo:

I don’t know if this has been said about the Jack Dylan Grazer drama but I want to say it for myself so u all get where I’m at with it.

The jokes Jack made or laughed at are not appropriate. That’s a fact. We’re all on the same page there. Another fact is that Jack is 14 years old.

At 14 years old literally no one is fully mature. Literally no one completely knows right from wrong at 14. The difference in mentality and maturity between 14 and 18 or 20 is HUGE. I’m 23 now and I can tell you for sure that I’m not the same person I was at 22, much less 14.

At 14, I was so far from knowing everything about being politically and morally correct it’s not even funny. I laughed at really awful jokes a lot, and made my fair share of them too. Not because I was a bad person, but because I was 14 and genuinely didn’t know any better. But I learned and grew as time went on and now I’m a better person than I was before. Expecting myself to be perfect at 14 was and is still totally unrealistic.

Here’s the bottom line: holding a 14 year old to the same standard as a grown adult is not realistic, and it’s not okay. If Jack was 18 or 19 and was continuing to say/do the things he’s done, then yeah, I’d be frustrated and much angrier. But he’s 14, a minor, a KID. He’s not an adult at any capacity and expecting him to behave like one is not realistic. Does that excuse what he did? Absolutely not. He should apologize and grow from it and better himself for the future. But he is still young. Give him the opportunity to learn and move forward.

And also, I cannot believe I have to make this clarification, but saying that a literal child should kill themselves is so fucked up, especially if you’re an adult telling him to do so. And if I ever see someone saying as such on my dash, I will block you and report you.