• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Take a look at those 2 numbers again and tell me, which group have you heard more memorializing about from westerners? Yeah lets care about them both equally, that means we should spend 99.99% of the time talking about the deaths in the middle east

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      I didn’t say anything about caring equally. I know that 9/11 is peanuts compared to the atrocities enacted by the US. I just don’t find it THAT funny to post a million memes about it, and wanted to know people’s actual perceptions since I hadn’t seen much actual discussion around it. I’m glad that I asked because it’s interesting to hear each persons’ unique perspectives while we are all in general agreement on many of the reasons that it feels like bullshit

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        The memes will continue as long as people are offended by them. Americans really need it beaten into them that their precious 9/11 is really nothing special and they commit a worse crime weekly

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          I totally agree that people need to be educated about all of the disgusting shit our government enacts daily, but I guess I see the memes as potentially entrenching their beliefs even further. I’m not anti-9/11 memes, it just makes me feel uncomfortable but I can also sit with that myself

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          9/11 was an attack on America yes, but the World Trade Center as the name implies is a center for trade for the planet. Many people from many countries lost their lives. That location was chosen for a purpose. America sucks, but don’t disregard the others who were impacted.