because it shouldn't be traumatizing for most people besides the handful who had family or friends that died and it's hilarious that so many other people with 0 relationship to the people who died were/are traumatized by it.

"Um ackshuuually, it's bad to care about people you don't have a personal, one-on-one relationship with." Jesus, what a take.

Neocons 100% reduced 9/11 into a goofy good-versus-evil narrative to justify indefinite bloodshed, but I wouldn't go as far as to demonize people solely for empathizing with the victims. There's nothing jingoistic about feeling horror witnessing everyday people tumble to their deaths on live television.

as has been pointed out elsewhere, no one talks about where they were when Timothy McVeigh and the CIA blew up that building in OKC, and from someone who remembers both I can tell you I'm far more leery about the context behind that one

The OKC bombing was HUGE news when it happened. 168 dying in a major American city was a big deal back then because there wasn't a mass shooting happening every other day. However, 9/11 was the largest attack on US soil, almost 3,000. It overshadowed OKC and now its status as an unspeakable tragedy has begun to wane too—such is the life of an American tragedy.

It was probably traumatizing for random Americans because they didn't expect anything like that to happen to them.

Something happening over there is different than it happening to the most powerful country on earth™️.

Same reason people care especially about the Ukraine war . Same reason amber alerts for little white girls get reported on more than indigenous women going missing.

It'd be less traumatic if there wasn't a consent manufacturing machine for war, and if it was instead just an airline malfunction or something.