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comment by SL61
SL61  ·  3436 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the most insensitive or thoughtless thing you have caught yourself doing?

It's more saying than doing but:

My friend in South Africa told me she was off school because it was Youth Day. I made a joke about it, because she seems to always be off school for silly-sounding government holidays (Family Day, Freedom Day). Turns out Youth Day is about remembrance of some sort of Apartheid school massacre...