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of course the actual lives lost in 9/11 was tragic, yes, but it is primarily funny (at least to me) because:
A. its been 22 years and most Americans act like it happened yesterday
B. We kinda had it coming (as a country, not saying the janitors or firefighters themselves did)
C. Most Americans will get red in the face if they hear you say or do something even mildly neutral about 9/11. I had a teacher once scream at me in the hallway because I, as a high school senior in 2012, was like "the 8:46 announcement that 'please take a moment of silence the first plane has struck the North Tower' and the 9:03 announcement 'please take a moment a silence the second plane has struck the South tower' are ridiculous and literally just trauma porn & what is worse is that most of the student body doesn't even have memories of 9/11" (the announcement shit was literally done like every 9/11 in my school district. Announcements for both planes striking the towers on the exact minute it happened as well as moments of silence during them. Every 9/11 was like this K-12 - ridiculous)
D. I am kinda super biased against 9/11 in general because I for years, being biracial, had people call me a terrorist because in my 95% white town I was the closest complexion to middle eastern they'd ever seen.
E. Uhhhh the War on Terror??
F. we literally had 14 9/11s on US highways in 2001 alone
Wasn’t there a period of time where the US had a 9/11 worth of covid deaths every day?
About a month as I recall
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Damn that part about having a moment of silence for when each plane hit the towers is...pretty ridiculous. I also don't think we ever really had a moment of silence for it in school as I remember it, and I graduated in 2006. So I too would roll my eyes all the fuck back in my head if I were you.
In terms of your bias due to profiling stuff, do you think it's kind of a reactionary response after so much of that? Being like "fuck you, you are using this as an excuse to be a piece of shit, so I don't care anymore"? I know someone else whose biracial and he was profiles like that and he suuuper doesn't find it funny. Obviously everyone has different ways that they process that shit but just curious for curiosity's sake. Also to be clear when I say reactionary I don't mean that in a disparaging way, it would be super understandable
it is absolutely a reactionary response lol - I wouldn't ever go to like a 9/11 memorial or something and be like "haha deserved" but 99% of my politics (maybe everyone's to an extent) are because of how I grew up. My parents were/are the type of liberal that encouraged me as a child to ask about news/politics/etc and gave me my own computer with internet access at like 10, so as a consequence I was the outspoken atheist kid in middle school who was like "maybe the war on terror is kinda dumb??" in class to which my classmates would go "oh my god you are a terrorist" and I'd just laugh & agree with them.
Literally still have a friend who I used to argue politics with all the time from like 7th grade throughout high school, who I'm sure the next time I happen to see him when I'm back home for the holidays will be like "what've you been up to you fuckin terrorist??" because of how it was always leveraged as an insult against me and, as a consequence of association, him too lol.
One could probably argue that that type of stuff growing up (along with the other casual racism, etc) is what led me to immediately seek out left-leaning people in college, and because of that, discovered marx/etc so
we took one minute for both world wars at my school
Idk why I find that hella funny, maybe that's me empathize with everyone who thinks a moment of silence for 9/11 is funny. I cracked the code!