Show threadpatience, doing up live 🎧🎚📻Sep 11, 2019

@hasya23 at 28 & just weeks from the end of my own human rights case in a supreme court, i felt caught, as i often have, between zealous post-WWII yt boomers & kids who lacked perspective just yet

that perspective — the U.S. were baddies — started for me in ’79 w/ Iran; ’80 w/ Reagan; ’86 w/ Libya; ’88 w/ Iran flight 655; ’90 & ’91 w/ bellicose threats over oil; ’91 w/ Paul Broussard; ’92 w/ LAPD acquittals; ’93 w/ Brandon Teena; & ’98 w/ James Byrd Jr.

when 9/11 went down, i was unsurprised

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@patience @hasya23 from outside (I watched it on TV with the rest of my office in London) every reaction from the US seemed strange, though we felt a lot of solidarity. As the years went on it got more, I don't know, uncomfortably strange? There was a sense of shock at first, then cynicism and the inevitably of things being twisted for political gain.
Sep 11, 2019 at 7:33pmWeb
Show threadpatience, doing up live 🎧🎚📻Sep 11, 2019

@moopet @hasya23 for about four days, peaking around the third day in the U.S. city where i lived, literally everyone treated each other stunningly gentle & kind. literal strangers sat down & gently listened to other strangers in public spaces

it obviously didn’t last. by day 4 or 5, early online memes, like the "WTC rebuild proposal" of four replacement towers in the original style, looking like they were giving the finger, started appearing, and terrorist attacks on local mosques began