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America Deserved 9/11 Megathread
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Would you say this about phrases like "Atlanta deserved Sherman" or "Germany deserved to be bombed in WW2"? A great many innocent people died in both of those. If you think those are different, is it because they happened a long time ago or because they didn't involve a non-state actor? I personally don't see any difference between our style of 9/11 posting and the Sherman-posting that can be found outside our website.
The unfortunate reality is that those people are politically irrelevant. Nothing they said, did, or voted for mattered in the slightest for America's actions. There were abolitionists in the Confederacy and anti-war Germans in Nazi Germany but when we talk about these states we usually ignore them. We just talk about the states and what they did.
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You're right, it would be a deranged opinion to express in public. We're not in public though we're in a leftists space. "America deserved 9/11" is a thing we say to distinguish ourselves from the normal people that think 9/11 was the greatest tragedy in the entire world. It's also very difficult to make another short phrase that expresses our opinion on 9/11. Communication crushes nuance, you can refer to somebody that you've known for a few months as your "friend" and you could refer to somebody that you've known from high school in the same way. There's a massive gulf in how close you are but you the same word is used for both.