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These numbers are really important, especially on a day like today. It's strange how much of a spectacle [1] 9/11 was, almost made for TV. Our 3000 victims of t
by ScaryBashGhost 5y ago
These numbers are really important, especially on a day like today. It's strange how much of a spectacle [1] 9/11 was, almost made for TV. Our 3000 victims of terror are thus acknowledged, depicted, and disseminated throughout the world. As a result, they're remembered in some sense too.
But the hundreds of thousands more whom we maim, torture, and kill across the globe are given no such status -- they're barely even admitted to exist! Simple efforts to just count these people etch them into the documentary record, and allow no one to say they couldn't have known. In this way they serve a similar purpose to Holocaust studies: by tallying the victims you make it harder to forget.
- MilnerRoute 5y agoAnother interesting statistic: more Americans died in the fighting in Iraq than died in the World Trade Center attacks.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoIt’s probably because they’re our people. It’s normal to most acknowledge our own victims.
- throwawayfji 5y agoThat can't explain it. Jews are a small % of the population and weren't "our own people", yet the holocaust is considered tragic and given a lot of empathy (far more than many other genocides). Also at that point you can't claim any moral high ground or claim the event is uniquely horrible, but the US and it's citizen do just that.
- datameta 5y agoVery topical satire from The Onion: https://youtu.be/vb5rHthCXoA https://youtu.be/vb5rHthCXoA