He doesn’t look that young. I can’t imagine somehow missing the post 9/11 fallout and the war in the Middle East. The 20 year anniversary of it wasn’t as extravagant as the 10 year. But as an American it was kinda hard to ignore.

If he’s from outside the us and like just turned 18 maybe. But like how does one even miss all of the memes about it? I guess even those have died down too.

he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught

see: forgot to properly teach him.

History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.

I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can't know what a world was like before an event if you weren't aware of it.

How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they've heard references to it. It's yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.

On a wide side note, I had an amazing Ancient History instructor in college. First day he told us not to bother getting the text for the class, we're not using it. He took us on an incredible ride.

Ooh can confirm: Our coach taught us that nazi germany was communist and north korea killed more people than any civilization in history.

When I was in school all the coaches taught physical education

Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught.

Fuck you, I'm not old!

What the hell is this coach thing?! No wonder some American schools have a teaching problem 😱, it's already hard to get good teachers but letting mr run after the ball teach history...

Baffled.

If you were to ask my teachers, American history goes revolutionary war, then nothing happens for awhile, then the civil war, then nothing happens for awhile, then WW1 had to happen so that we could have ourselves a WORLD WAR TWO! The four years that make up 9/10ths of American history. And then the Japanese signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri and then stuff I-the boomer history teacher-personally remember so it legally can't be history.

Did you finish school prior to 2001? Cuz, I mean, that's everything I learned in school too at that time.

But my daughter is 13 now, and I can confirm that she has been formerly told about 9/11. I don't think with as much detail as she will learn in her during her high school tenure, but she at least knows about it.