#i think also between tr/mp and covid making everyone Really Weird like...

[kitkatcadillac]

im just thinking since ive been seeing mentions about it on my dashboard lately, re: 9/11 jokes (/gen), some brief(sort of) thoughts

so listen. i get it, especially when things just bolt across the internet at mach 12, that things lose context the further they arc out of their circles. there IS a place and time for 9/11 jokes, but it isnt because 9/11 itself was funny.

like, my dude??? genuinely think about these things before you just pick up thinking theyre funny because you saw people laughing about them. that was a real, genuine tragedy. real, actual people died. i remember being sent home from kindergarten because i lived near baltimore at the time and there was this massive, genuine fear about doing whatever it took next to hit the pentagon next. re: people who did not deserve it really, truly died in horrible ways. life was a little different even for those of us who werent directly impacted by losing someone we know or getting hurt.

but you know what really, truly, deadass, ABSOLUTELY deserves to have the absolute piss taken out of it??? this weird red-blooded american culture around it.

listen. listen. its one thing to remember a tragedy, right? its okay to take a moment of silence, to think about what happened, what we have, things to be grateful for. maybe use the opportunity and mindfulness to go educate. but its undeniable theres some absolute fucking weirdos around this. you know them. people who want to force people to look at it and... idk. do something??? admit something???

theres some weird, weird people who take that tragedy, and they absolutely use it for traction to guilt people. to fuel some weird “us vs them” rhetoric, usually “america vs the rest of the world.” and maybe just at the lightest level, thats like... one thing. but you see how “us vs them” when applied to 9/11 can get really ugly, because thats definitely something that happened even when the tragedy happened in the first place. people got incredibly racist. a man was murdered for looking a certain way and wearing a turban the day-of, if i remember.

so these weirdos, you know... a lot of them, they take that time to boost a racist, islamophobic rhetoric. THOSE fuckers are the ones you wanna fucking dunk the SHIT out of with their 9/11 circle wanks. THOSE people you want to take the absolute piss out of. THOSE are the target of the vast majority of the whacked-out 9/11 jokes, where that started out.

9/11 was a very real, very devastating event. and nothing fuels shithead racists and bigots like a tragedy that has a superficially easy target to point fingers at. i cant tell you that fighting that clean is productive, just if youre making an ass of someone, at least know what youre doing and why youre doing it, you know? get their asses, but get their asses with the knowledge.