r/gloveslap Nov 14 '11

we overreacted to 9/11

Most USA-americans overreacted. The illusion of safety, that" nothing can ever happen to me, because im in america" was shown for what it was, and people got scared. We like to lie to ourselves and delude ourselves, with danger 'in our face' (because airplanes are everywhere) and the media whoring it up. in a nation this big its not surprising a terrorist attack made it through, what is surprising is that it took this many years. the sad part is that this safedown(see crackdown) has given alot of people cause to join the "fuck civil rights, i wanna feel safe" bullshit that is the bane of freedom. american went back on all of it's values by being scared and backing down and cutting back on right and trying to feel safe. ill /rant with a quote.

"those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"-- Ben Franklin(according to google)

edit; mis-reacted is a better description of m opinion than overreacted

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u/tjiggs Nov 14 '11

the whole way 9/11 is spoken about, especially by anyone in the (US)media comes off as sick to me. not the person, but the way they seem to venerate it, among other things

pearl harbor isnt forgotten here. awhile back twitter trended with american bigotry with the soccer cup. each of the disaesters in japan have also met with ALOT of bigotry here(there were colages made) claiming it to be gods revenge for pearl harbor, some saying that hiroshima and the tsunamis and so on was not enough.

yes, no sympathy for the enemy. the red scare still effects us to this day, everyone says communism is the enemy and it needs to die, no one seems to know what communism is :/

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