Comments on: I’d Claim Indifference, But Instead I’ve Got Irritation http://rachelnotrebecca.com/2009/09/11/id-claim-indifference-but-instead-ive-got-irritation/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stevie http://rachelnotrebecca.com/2009/09/11/id-claim-indifference-but-instead-ive-got-irritation/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Stevie Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:53:31 +0000 http://rachelnotrebecca.com/?p=5874#comment-102 I'm so glad you posted this. I was feeling the exact same way and mentioned it to someone and got chastised for being an insensitive little shit. Well, I'm SORRY but more people die of horrible cancers EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN DAY. I’m so glad you posted this. I was feeling the exact same way and mentioned it to someone and got chastised for being an insensitive little shit. Well, I’m SORRY but more people die of horrible cancers EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN DAY.

]]> By: Keith http://rachelnotrebecca.com/2009/09/11/id-claim-indifference-but-instead-ive-got-irritation/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Keith Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:24:23 +0000 http://rachelnotrebecca.com/?p=5874#comment-93 Right on, sister. Also, in my old age I am careful about whom I choose to sympathize with. If thousands of people died in a small town in Kansas, does anyone think that New Yorkers would be paying tribute to the victims and remembering them eight years later? Of course not, that would be ridiculous. I do not think they would even be discussing it with any sincere concern the very day it happened. Furthermore, I have to laugh whenever I notice that many of the the people who pay tribute to the victims are, remarkably, the same people who declare their hatred for NYC and all things liberal and intellectual, e.g., during a Presidential election. These people are running around saying, "Never forget," but what they really mean is not the tragedy itself, but the fact that those Arabs need to pay the price. And yes, people die everyday without the posthumous glorification that results from having been a New Yorker and a 9/11 victim. Honestly, who cares about those ordinary people who died unpublicized deaths. You're born, and then you live, and then you die. It's just another excuse to romanticize the dumb city because we've been told our whole lives that it towers over us all. At least I'm not the only one who got over it on September 12. Right on, sister. Also, in my old age I am careful about whom I choose to sympathize with. If thousands of people died in a small town in Kansas, does anyone think that New Yorkers would be paying tribute to the victims and remembering them eight years later? Of course not, that would be ridiculous. I do not think they would even be discussing it with any sincere concern the very day it happened. Furthermore, I have to laugh whenever I notice that many of the the people who pay tribute to the victims are, remarkably, the same people who declare their hatred for NYC and all things liberal and intellectual, e.g., during a Presidential election. These people are running around saying, “Never forget,” but what they really mean is not the tragedy itself, but the fact that those Arabs need to pay the price.

And yes, people die everyday without the posthumous glorification that results from having been a New Yorker and a 9/11 victim. Honestly, who cares about those ordinary people who died unpublicized deaths. You’re born, and then you live, and then you die. It’s just another excuse to romanticize the dumb city because we’ve been told our whole lives that it towers over us all. At least I’m not the only one who got over it on September 12.

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