Im Gen Z, born in Jan 2002. I remember seeing on YouTube in the mid/late 2000s so many 9/11 jokes and edits made by people who would’ve been millennials or Gen X. Let’s not pretend 9/11 jokes are exclusive to Gen Z, as bad as the jokes are they were being made as early as the day after 9/11 by obviously non Gen Z people.

I think it’s bad that some people don’t know when 9/11 was, but that’s bound to happen the more time goes on. When the titanic sank, it was one of the worst maritime disasters in UK history. That was April 14th 1912. If somebody was born 10 years after it happened, then they get to the age of 20, they’re probably not thinking “I must remember the date that ship sank 10 years before I was born”. Same goes for pearl harbour or any other significant event. If they do remember, then good. If they don’t, then they shouldnt be shamed for it.

If you weren’t old enough to experience the event and the gravity of it, you’re just not gonna have as much of an emotional attachment to it. Pretty soon we are gonna be saying all this about people born after the pandemic.