Priorities
from the not-a-good-sign dept
Let me be clear. I am angry. The few people who have spoken to me know this. I am angry that there are people in this world who could contemplate, let alone organize, plan, and carry out such a horrendous event. However, I am now scared. Scared about our priorities. Right now our priorites should be helping those who are suffering because of this mess. We should then work on ways to prevent this from ever happening again. Then we can talk about justice. The folks concentrating on revenge right now have their priorities screwed up. I am scared of the reports I am hearing. I am scared of people jumping to conclusions. I am scared of stereotyping. I am sickened by the numerous people I've heard or read blaming the US or their allies for causing this as well. There were some absolutely insane and mad things behind this. I cannot call them human beings. There are some sick and ignorant people cheering these events. They are ignorant. They don't deserve to be destroyed either. Instead, I'm hearing ridiculous reports of people threatening and targeting completely innocent people. I understand that people are looking for folks to blame. That's understandable. But, it's not something that we need to focus on now. And, when we do look for those answers, it only creates additional harm and danger to generalize and stereotype any group of people. As one New Yorker stated, "In Manhattan, we aren't in a state of war, we're in a state of mourning". There is no "right" solution on what to do about this. However, jumping to conclusions and making assumptions is only going to make the situation worse.
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Step 2: Find their parents, wives, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neices, and nephiews.
Step 3: Strap above people to cruse missles.
Step 4: Launch missles @ random buildings in the middle east.
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Stop the madness...
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Exactly
What happens to the planet when everyone starts consuming like Americans?
Look at rat research....when rats in a rat city get to a certain density, they from rat gangs and become anti-social. How much of the world issues are overpopulation?
Want a big can of cockroaches? Open the overpopulation one!
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Revenge vs. Justice/ Racism
Fuck the building being a symbol, for freedom and democracy is found in the heart, not a structure. What upsets me most is the blatant disreagard for life. One cannot commit such acts and not expect retribution. I am hopeful the US will act sanely and something good will come out of this.
For all the racist idiots calling bomb threats or thinking negatively toward muslims or arabs, I call for forced extradition to the Palestine.
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Follow the law
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whoa. wait a second..
..look, these are not dirt-poor nations we're talking about. if you want to solve economic disparity, send money to Africa. these nations are often quite weathly - the issue lies in the distribution of their wealth. i keep hearing that "this attack is due to American behavior". let's be real here. the average citizen of a Middle Eastern nation has far more harm done to him by his own government that by the US. we're talking about countries with a large population of young people who have nothing to do, no future, and are looking for someone to blame. who's surprised that the leaders of these nations choose not to blame themselves? the US is a perfect straw man, set up to channel anger. want figures? in 1998, US aid to Israel: 3.1 billion USD. same year, US aid to Jordan, Egypt and Palestine: 2.4 billion.
casting this simple as the innocent have-nots versus the greedy haves is simplistic. have no doubt - we've been attacked by the organization of a power-hungry politician and nothing more.
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