You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.