• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You have to be young because post 9/11 the us was filled with fears that the biggest threat to our safety was Islamic terrorists. Understandably due to the scale of the attacks, but that’s why it’s important to point out to us citizens that our own terrorists are a bigger threat to us than those across an ocean.

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      1 year ago

      I remember 9/11. Perhaps you are confused because you assumed I was American

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        1 year ago

        I apologize for the assumption, but we are talking about American politics and sentiments, so it probably would have been prudent to point out that the fact you didn’t think about the comparison might be because you aren’t American. As an American who was an adult when 9/11 happened, it’s seems pretty obvious.

        Can I ask how old you are? I only do so because I “remember” things like the challenger explosion, but didn’t quite grasp what it fully meant because I was so young.

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          Early 30s.

          The idea that I’d have to specifically mention not being American seems funny, but in context, fair enough I guess

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            1 year ago

            It’s totally a perspective thing. Being a full on adult (well as much as an early 20 year old can be. Lol) it seems like a no brainer that they would make this comparison based on how much the fear was at that time that Islamic terrorists were all over the country ready to kill people at random. I can easily see why someone younger from another country might not be as aware of that

            However, even at that time, I believe, right wing terrorists still had killed more over a period of something like 20 years, even with the 3k from 9/11.