#bc quite frankly i would be more than glad to let the event fade out of active memory and think that's probably the best way to move forward

[aeide-thea]

the thing about 9/11 is that it got used post facto to justify all sorts of hideous jingoistic shit but also it was a genuine devastating human tragedy and i really pretty deeply resent people's deciding that the—absolutely gross, don't get me wrong—way it's been culturally positioned justifies their making jokes about the event itself.

#like. my mother worked basically next door and watched people fall to horrific deaths and had to make her way home thru the horror #and was quite frankly never the same again #and like. the idea that people can look at that and dehumanize all those who died enough to be comfortable making jokes— #i personally think is deeply fucked up and not in fact any kind of ~social justice~ #like roll yr eyes at the overblown commemorative pomp and circumstance all you want but like. real people died absolutely horrific deaths #and being flippant about it—sucks‚ actually‚ even if they WERE ~complacent americans who supported capitalism~ or whatever #(not to mention like. it was a really wide slice of humanity actually. but god forbid we consider the actual people as people) #anyway i deeply resent that i feel the need to make this post at all #bc quite frankly i would be more than glad to let the event fade out of active memory and think that's probably the best way to move forward #but unfortunately fucking br*nd*nicus is apparently out here making posts abt how the ~anniversary is worthy of derision~ #and it's like. what if we just. let it go without either the weird performative jingoistic bullshit OR being fucking dicks. #anyway whatever i guess i'm not like. appropriately leftist or something #but personally i don't think real people's horrifying deaths are cool to make cracks about. sorry if that makes me a conservative buzzkill. #like i get that it was different outside of new york or washington but like. some of us were IN new york actually. #and yeah to be clear people in the middle east subsequently died similarly horrific deaths because of the way 9/11 got leveraged #and we ought to respect and remember those too #doing THAT on 9/11 would imo be a lot more meaningful than sneering at dead americans but also it would actually take work and sincerity #neither of which most tumblr users are up for