RE: Anniversary of 9/11
September 12, 2024 at 10:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2024 at 10:24 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(September 12, 2024 at 12:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 11, 2024 at 11:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Right. It's like something snapped inside the country.
One of the more offensive things I’ve seen about the WTC attacks runs something like, ‘The best way to honor the victims of September 11th is to be the kind of people we were on September 12.’
Maybe try to be the kind of people you were on the 10th.
Boru
I'm not sure we were any better on the 10th. The events of the 11th only brought that shit out. In the same way Trump has made voicing racism acceptable, the anger after 9/11 made voicing specifically anti-Arab racism -- and violence against them and other foreigners -- either acceptable, in the former case, or newsworthy but not meaningful in American political discourse in the latter.
That's who we were on the 10th as well, taken as a whole people. The attack made expressing that racism more acceptable to white Americans, and that was racism that was already there on the 10th.
