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Can we stop making fun of 9/11 here? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That was one of the biggest tragedies in recorded history. Do you even know what it did to the economy? It was like Black Monday on a 5x multiplier.

The World Trade Center, keyword TRADE. This isn't pokemon shit, this is real-world stocks and dollars. The portfolios were ruined.

The next time you laugh at that, think about the human beings that had their vacation bonuses decimated that day. Think about how the economic blow made countries like China catch up to us. Just think about that.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you want all businessmen, firemen, EMTs/Paramedics, secretaries, receptionists, janitors to be executed because of their complicit support of capitalism and NATO imperialism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, Just the bourgeoisie.

Not sure where you got the idea that we'd wish harm to our fellow proletariat simply for providing indiscriminate aid in a crisis.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What do you call 2000 dead businessmen? A good start.

I just find this very reductive. Just because someone was working in the WTC doesn't make them the bourgeoisie. Maybe I don't understand class distinction well (actually I know I don't), but I find takes like these wild and dehumanizing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heres a very good starter guide on the subject of Class distinction that you may find useful.

https://youtu.be/Nd7cohTdRAo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sending this, I have actually seen this one before. I really enjoy Second Thought!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

on hexbear we kind of play up our 9/11 banter to contrast with the way most westerners talk about the event. It's just frustrating when people seem to not give a shit what came before or after 9/11 and have no perspective on the magnitude of suffering we have caused. Around 4.5 million people have died due to America's post-9/11 wars. Countless more died from all the shit we stirred up in the decades prior. We also funded, armed, and trained the same dudes who attacked us. The whole fucking thing is blowback, but most westerners either don't know or don't care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The initial deaths were about 3000. I think they gave 2000 as a rough estimate of the proportion that were businessmen and other finance ghouls.