Just saw this in my Tumblr stream (minus the blurring on the names, of course):
That top part is an animated gif of a handful of frames-worth of one of the towers falling. The bottom part is where Tumblr users react, either in sadness or in recalling “where they were when”.
I get that people are still freaked out by this event. I understand.
It’s one thing to mourn quietly at Ground Zero in NYC. It’s one thing to quietly light a candle to remember those who died.
But animated gifs of the towers falling?
Blog-based confessions of sad-feelings?
Yeah, let’s keep things in perspective kids. 911 was nothing compared to, oh, say, what we dropped on Japan. Not just the atom bombs (which killed tens of thousands the *instant* they were dropped), but also the firebombing of Tokyo, too.
What we did, as a country, to Japan not recent enough for you? Then consider the 106,000 Iraqi dead—most of which would still be alive if we hadn’t invaded their country unprovoked (which only happened because 911 happened).
Oh, no—let’s pour over pictures and videos of the day we lost a whopping 3k people—better yet, let’s give it the same treatment we’d give a LOLcat pic or a gif from that blog that features 2 frames of a movie.
Mourning should be done on a personal level—somber, respectful. Doing it on Tumblr practically requires a lack of respect for the dead. So, please, it’s been 9 years—you don’t have to be over it, but can we chill with the ghoulish replay of videos and uber-emotional remembrances of “where we were when”?
I *hope* you weren’t expecting tolerance for this sort of crap from the guy who runs Website666.com. I may be a puppeteer, but I also draw Ballpoint Adventures.
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