" Infuriating And Horrifying 9/11 Tweets From American Teens" and my response
Some dumb blog wrote a really stupid post called "Infuriating And Horrifying 9/11 Tweets From American Teens" that took one of my tweets completely out of context. Someone mentioned me while linking the article, and I gave her a piece of my mind.
infuriating 9/11 tweets from @TheStelzerSoFar @JoshEberg @itsofficialusuk @anarchaallie + more. tell 'em how you feel. blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012…
@EstherFreedman I'm not a teen, and that tweet was a satire right-wing responses to tragedies- @EstherFreedman I'm sure you've heard claims by those such as Jerry Falwell that 9/11, Katrina, and other disasters come from American ...
- @EstherFreedman ... tolerance of Homosexuality. I was lampooning that attitude by stepping into the imaginary persona of an evil LGBT ...
- @EstherFreedman ... activist, wanting to bring further destruction to America by converting more people to homosexuality.
- @EstherFreedman This very idea is absurd, of course, as is the idea that disasters are caused by moral impurity. That's the joke.
- @AnarchaAllie as you can see, taken out of context, that's the least funny thing anyone's ever said.
- @EstherFreedman My ridiculous spelling and capitalization was meant to underscore that, but I suppose you just didn't get it.
- @AnarchaAllie i read it in the @HoustonPress. no, they did not include that satirical nature of your tweet. but i get it.
- @EstherFreedman I remember 9/11. I was in high school at the time. I watched the towers fall on television. I remember the horror.
- @EstherFreedman I remember being disgusted by how the news media, whom the blog post linked seems to respect, turned it into entertainment.
- @EstherFreedman I remember storming out of the teacher's lounge at around 11:30 am in disgust when NBC showed a montage of the attacks,
- @EstherFreedman from different angles, cutting quickly, with dramatic music, climaxing in the graphic "America under Attack".
- @EstherFreedman in the scant few hours after the attacks, they'd already turned into a spectacle, already turned it into yet another ...
- @EstherFreedman piece of entertainment to keep people's eyes glued to their televisions.
- @EstherFreedman I also remember the media's coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan (whose occupation continues).
- @EstherFreedman I remember the run up to the war in Iraq. I remember the irresponsible media coverage there, the air of fear, jingoism.
- @EstherFreedman the horrors of Iraq, Afghanistan, America's continuing drone campaigns in Pakistan, Yemen, NATO's assault on Libya ...
- @EstherFreedman these things horrify me far more than the attack on the towers, horrifying though it may have been.
- @EstherFreedman 9/11's position in the modern American mythology as a day of unspeakable terror justifying all future violence by the US ...
- @EstherFreedman plays a role in our continuing complicity in imperialism, murder, rape, war.
- @EstherFreedman I find the attitude that 9/11 should never be joked about or referred to in any way other than reverent mourning to be far..
- @EstherFreedman If you're infuriated by these tweets quoted in the blog post but not the unspeakable horrors meted out by the US in response
- @EstherFreedman to 9/11, your whole perspective is completely broken and I encourage you to re-evaluate your entire life.
