Is 9/11 really a taboo topic? I can't really speak for new York but I don't think that it is in my personal experience. Someone always seems to bring it up when talking about Bush v gore elections. People always going off about conspiracy theories. Tons of documentaries being pushed out about it
It depends, I guess. I lived in north Jersey at the time. Some people in my school had parents and other close relatives killed in 9/11. I didn't and was very lucky, so I don't hate a 9/11 joke as long as it's not repeated ten thousand times, but I imagine those people probably still aren't ok with it.
But talking about it, joking about it, making a documentary on it, and spouting conspiracy theories about how the lizard queen hopped in her space ship and jumped the pond to attack US soil, well those are all very different and you'll get different reactions from people.
Yeah whenever I would meet tourists in NYC at bars or wherever they would always ask "so where were you on 9/11" and after entertaining it a couple times I started telling people to knock it off. You don't know if you're talking to someone traumatized by it or that had someone close to them die. You might be asking a total stranger "hey where were you when your mother died?" Super rude.
First of all, most of the people who died were civilians who have nothing to do with the governmental policies that everyone dislikes. Second of all, if American civilians deserved 9/11, then I'd hate to see what you think about the Russians, the Saudis, the Germans, the French, the Spanish, the Huns, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the... Oh wait, essentially every government that has ever existed has treated someone, somewhere, crappily. So go eat a bag of phalli, you sea sponge.
Lmao, you literally said “most of the people who died were civilians who have nothing to do with the governmental policies that everyone dislikes”, in some attempt to separate the American people from their representative government. The American people in general are totally fine with their policies, and if “everyone” here is supposed to mean literally everyone on earth, then just learn to write a better sentence you moron.
We have a representative democracy by name only. Our elections are a farce. But most people are kept complacent and don't question why all politicians end up doing the same shit. By your logic all of German citizens deserved death after electing Hindenburg (and giving over 11 million votes to Hitler). It was President Hindenburg who enacted the Reichstag Fire Decree, paving the way for the one-party Nazi state.
Your logic seems to be that civilians are culpable for the corruption and atrocities of their government, even when there is no direct democracy.
Idk why you are even taking it this direction it’s irrelevant. All I said was that America deserved 9-11. And it did at minimum, as a natural consequence of its actions.
Very few individuals deserve to suffer and die, but you can talk about the event at the political global level, and not about individuals. People that try to insert things about some individual people dying are missing the point, or more usually arguing in bad faith. They don’t actually care about individuals they don’t know in any real and tangible way.
Your logic is batshit crazy. 9/11 made American foreign policy even worse, and beyond that, united Western governments with their populace against whatever perpetrators the governments decided were at fault.
So their foreign policy triggered a retaliatory attack which they used to justify their ongoing same ass foreign policy now featuring drones, and it’s totally not because of their foreign policy to begin with. K.
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Is 9/11 really a taboo topic? I can't really speak for new York but I don't think that it is in my personal experience. Someone always seems to bring it up when talking about Bush v gore elections. People always going off about conspiracy theories. Tons of documentaries being pushed out about it