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The collective trauma experienced on 9/11 largely made anti war movements DOA. Combined with the sheer volume of conflicts and proxy wars were involved in, were

• thinkingemote 6y ago
  not only did it stop anti-war movements, it also stopped anti-capitalist and anti-globalist movements. Seattle in 1999 to 2001 had huge protests and riots [1,2]. After 9/11, protesting the west almost meant supporting the terrorists. When globalisation used to mean the exploitation of the developing world by the west - now the west was under attack and so to attack imperialism via violent protest was to be sympathetic to the terrorist. It's only now, 20 years later that the children of these protestors are repeating the same things their parents did. And it also explains why certain politicians try to associate protest with terrorism these days, that it's a different generation protesting explains why this association falls flat. Today's protestors were not born when the towers fell. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Mardi_Gras_riot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Mardi_Gras_riot