You can have parents who don’t spout Stormfront propaganda, but they have no minority friends and family, there are few in the community, etc. The parents then think, “It’s not our problem, we’re not like that” and go about their merry way.

You can have kids who know it’s been done before, but don’t know (and don’t care about) the full history and physical and emotional consequences. I.e. they may think that white people did this to blacks in the South, but won’t know the extent of it, or the lynching, maiming, and assult that went with it. Therefore in their tunnel-vision-impaired minds, it’s a “prank,” but that does nothing to change the message or the effect. We do have an obligation to let the defense attorneys TRY to use the defense. IMO it would only apply justifiably to a minor or adult who is mentally impaired and therefore unable to understand the context… but then, that would allow for a whole ‘nother set of defense tactics.