Forbidden thoughts about 9/11 on Salon

[Martin]

Man, some of these are really farked up, others are kinda funny.
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I'll admit my first thought was, Thank God, I won't have to hear [name withheld] bitch about her marriage anymore. Her husband worked in the WTC and they were on the road to a messy divorce. Of course, then I spoke to my friend, who was now the proud widow of a martyr -- and has since claimed full benefits. The hypocrisy of her attitude, especially as she spoke about him in the reverent tone normally reserved for saints when he was once known as TB (short for 'The Bastard'), nearly made me physically ill.

While I no longer associate with her, mutual friends have told me she now claims they had a storybook romance -- sure, if the author is Jackie Collins.

When I heard there was a terror attack downtown, I hoped the situation would degenerate into urban guerrilla warfare. I was really psyched to go out and kick some Islamist ass.

 

[UNCjigga]

Didn't bother to click the link, but I did laugh at the first quote. I'm sure that's not the only story like this (y'all remember the urban legend about the guy who got caught cheating cuz when his wife called on 9/11 he said he was 'busy at work'...in the WTC!!!)

The second quote...man that guy is really messed up. He should be first in line for guerrila warfare in Baghdad.

 

[tweakmm]

I read some of those earlier
I laughed at one about jenga and north tower and south tower.
Yup, I'm going to hell

 

[glen]

I had another friend who watched the towers go down from Brooklyn, didn't know what to do to get out his sudden rage against Arabs, so he opened his refrigerator and started throwing out all his Middle Eastern food, yelling as he tossed items one by one into the garbage: "Fvck this baba ghanoush! We don't need their fvcking pita bread!" I won't even tell you what he did to the hummus.

 

[gopunk]

that second one has been playing too much CS

The fact that tons of white people just stood there near the towers looking before they fell cracked him up. It confirmed the stereotype of white folks never thinking anything is ever going to happen to them. And since black people are used to fucked-up crap happening to them all the time they were trying to get the hell out of there.


Of course I spotted a few African-Americans looking lost. My dad just said that they've been around white people too damn long. Real black folks run.

ahahahaha

A friend of mine noted, as all the flag bumper stickers and crap started getting slapped up all over houses, cars and work cubbies, that some people weren't even really sticking the stickers on their cars -- they were scotch-taping them to the inside of their car windows. It was as if they knew that their surge of patriotic feeling would fade, and they wouldn't want to be left looking like a hick with the stupid flag sticker left on their car. Totally cynical, but I think that's true.

 

[gopunk]

In the days and weeks that followed the attacks I found myself worrying about the rescue dogs that were working the site. There were reports in the media almost daily about injuries to the dogs (and in some cases deaths) and I found myself wondering if it was really that important to recover things like concrete splashed with the victim's DNA.

i'm guilty to that one....

 

[UNCjigga]

"The day of 9/11, [my friend and I] spoke frequently, as we always did, being that we were inseparably close. The next day she called and said that she was walking in her neighborhood and some 'Indians wearing saris' were walking down the street and she spit on them -- it was her patriotic duty. I was stunned. She continued to say that everyone at [her company] felt the way she did: that Indians were responsible and that they should all be sent back to their home countries.

"I tried explaining that India is predominantly Hindu and at that point they thought the terrorists were extreme Muslims from Afghanistan. She didn't seem to care at all. Incidentally, we no longer speak." -- Soozan Baxter, a 27-year-old Indian woman, who has since moved out of New York, recalling her close friend, a graduate of Stanford University

:| b!tch is just mad cuz all the good jobs in her company are taken by Indians!!! H1-B baby!!!