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“Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”
It’s named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.
I would like to offer some perspective to the Americans upset the world doesn’t revolve around them. And share a terrorist act from my country, that I know you lot won’t know about.
But most of you lot celebrate the party that did it so, maybe it won’t land well.
Let me guess, you’re Russian or Israeli?
I think this is a fair way to look at it. I don’t watch the news much so I don’t know what goes on in other countries either
I quit my first real job on 9/11. I watched the buildings go down, walked into the deli I hated working at and said, “life is too short.” Which for an 18 year old me was a pretty big move.
I had a job in Colorado at a small 20-30 person company, including two devout muslim immigrant men from Afghanistan. OMG, they were freaking the fuck out, thinking people were going to come drag them out of the office and murder them in the parking lot. Everybody had their back and tried to calm them down, but boy, they were so stressed out.
Americans went nuts after 9/11. It was weird how all of a sudden, it was ok to be openly racist. Up to then, I knew older people were racist, but were being shamed into keeping quiet and it was fading from younger generations, but 9/11 set all that back. They were right to be scared.
Had a French teacher in high school who was from Morocco, and Muslim. He had some pretty harrowing stories from the years following 9/11.
The most extreme of them involved him and his family being targeted in a drive-by shooting. Said some of the rounds missed his daughter by inches right where she was sleeping.
There were several different attacks, and attempted attacks, which varied in the level of violence, but all were random acts of opportunity during otherwise hum-drum quotidien activities, like grocery shopping and pumping gas. Literal IRL terrorism, but the perpetrators were always white so… y’know.
He recounted the feeling of being hunted as urban prey by bat-guano crazy rednecks…chilling.
That vibe quieted down by the 2010s, but now it’s come roaring back. MAGA is like three 9/11s in a trench coat.
I mean, if they were in Texas they probably have a reason to worry
they still had cause to worry in Colorado. people were fucking crazy
Very true
If you want to tell our response to it through comedy, I suggest the Seanbaby article The Nation that Freaked Out http://www.seanbaby.com/news/terrorism.htm
Should we double check, and make sure he knows what Pearl Harbor was? And Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? And the Holocaust?
What? It’s not unreasonable to say he may have missed some key moments in history.
I only learned of this one from Behind the Bastards
Edit to add
On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world’s worst industrial disaster.[3] A government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused approximately 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.[4] Estimates vary on the death toll, with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259.[5] Others estimate that 8,000 died within two weeks of the incident occurring, and another 8,000 or more died from gas-related diseases.[6] In 1989, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) of the United States paid $470 million (equivalent to $1.03 billion in 2024) to settle litigation stemming from the disaster.[7]
Since I’ve come back from India I’ve sort of just been waiting to hear about an environmental disaster there. This makes sense.
a new environmental disaster or one of the usuals
Wdym
They burn plastic, Modi is killing/jailing climate change activists, and literally every single waterway I saw was choked with plastic. Every single animal I saw looked like it was on deaths door, aside from young animals - they didn’t look much better.
All in all, India is one of the most depressing places I’ve ever had the displeasure of visiting. Any change the west tries to make regarding the climate will be instantly wiped out a country like India. I would call the whole country an environmental catastrophe if it weren’t for places like Kerala, which if I’m not mistaken is also just fucked now.
So thing about history, too recent history isn’t taught. Because the system is made around your parents teaching you what they went through.
The first 3 are American, I could see a foreigner not knowing. My sister is a teacher in Europe and she says none of her students knew about the Holocaust. These are teenagers. I think maybe we might be fucked as a species.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are in Japan?
It was an American attack, American history goes into much more detail about it than across the pond.
America attacked Pearl Harbor?
a teacher in Europe
…like, all of it?
But more to the point, I call bullshit. I cannot think of a country in Europe where the Holocaust is not well known.
I really hope she was bullshitting me but she seemed serious. This is in Bulgaria.
Uhhhhhh, I wouldn’t classify Hiroshima and Nagasake as “Disasters in American history”.
I’d say they are “Disasters in Japanese history”.
Not as a species, just as workers under capitalism
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To be fair 9/11 is probably going to be forgotten about way sooner
It’s not too relevant for a school history lesson because it didn’t have too many consequences except for the Iraq war
uncomfortable afghanistan noises
Naninjing, dresden, tokio bombing, pol pot… there is no shortage of atrocicites.
Like lots of muricans forget about minsk and go neanerthal about russia. Happens a lot
I only know Seven Eleven. Had no idea they had competitors.
Wait till you hear about Seven Twelve.
Well, at least I made a lot of money on OT with that one…
But what about 6 7
He is either not a US American, or the “Never Forget” nation forgot to properly teach him.
Well, the number of people talking about the 3 planes getting hijacked on another thread makes me think we’ve forgotten at least a little bit.
I live in one of those “never forget” nations that promised to never forget something… but it seems that we, too, managed to forget.
Germany with AfD becoming the largest individual party?
I feel you so much right now.
I guess we are all in the same boat… Errr land.
Wow, you live in Boaterland? Do you know Jimmy on the east side?
My parents were boat mormons, so what do you think? Of course I do know my brother Jimmy… I hate him.
Psssssst…
Damit besagte Personengruppen es vergessen könnten, müssten die es erstmal verstehen. Das würde Bildung erfordern und da wird dann schwierig… Wir haben kein Geld für Bildung. Das haben die Reichen.
It is more that the rich ensured that education focused primarily on the aesthetic horrors of fascism rather than its material origin. The impetus for bonapartist tendencies was never removed so it eventually returned as conditions necessitated. They rich could not admit it was the system they uphold and benefit from that gave rise to fascism without endangering their positions and implicating themselves.
I want to upvote the “aesthetic horrors” but it’s not “the rich”. It’s just human stupidity and laziness in trying to educate children.
you would be shocked to find out who writes and owns your textbook and course curriculums. Idk what textbooks are like in Europe exactly but american education is effectively propaganda when it comes to historical subjects. Tbh though, whether your these things are owned and written by your government or private interests they are influenced by bourgeois politics and the historical perspective it creates. All of our retellings of history are influenced by the dominant ideology of their era.
Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught. A lot of students treat history as irrelevant. It doesn’t help that a lot of public school history teachers are the equivalent of a dad watching World War 2 documentaries. Lots of them basically teach history so they can be a coach instead. Because public schools don’t hire independent coaches, and require all of them to teach something. So the coaches tend to fall into teaching history, because it’s easier than learning to teach calculus or chemistry.
Ooh can confirm: Our coach taught us that nazi germany was communist and north korea killed more people than any civilization in history.
Some people believe in anything…
When I was in school all the coaches taught physical education
He doesn’t look that young. I can’t imagine somehow missing the post 9/11 fallout and the war in the Middle East. The 20 year anniversary of it wasn’t as extravagant as the 10 year. But as an American it was kinda hard to ignore.
If he’s from outside the us and like just turned 18 maybe. But like how does one even miss all of the memes about it? I guess even those have died down too.
i’d say anyone under 35 wasn’t really aware for it.
35 might be an exaggeration, they would have been around 9 years old, old enough to remember something.
Yeah, this is definitely wrong. My younger brothers are significantly younger than 35 right now, and they still remember where they were when it happened.
nonexistent?
2026-2001=25
36-25=11
11>0
🙄 Your math is bad. Read what they said closer
He doesn’t look that young.
Eh, 9/11 was ~25 years ago. And if we assume that a child under the age of, say, 5 wouldn’t be interested in such things and wouldn’t be exposed to it much, especially if not in the US … then someone could feasibly be up to 30 years old right now and have been too young to notice or care when 9/11 happened.
And I don’t know about your age standards … but this guy looks like he could easily be under 30.
I’m very squarely in that age bracket and it was hard to ignore 9/11 if you were at all exposed to any media. I can’t imagine anyone 25-30 managing to entirely ignore 9/11 even without teachers talking about it. Maybe someone with the absolute peak of sheltering could ignore it. But outside of that I can’t imagine anyone in the US 25-30 having no clue.
he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught
see: forgot to properly teach him.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
but you can’t make it drink
For that, you’re gonna need a hose.
I’d say they made the attempt, but if he didn’t listen that much, the problem is them passing him, not attempting to teach him.
that is definitely a problem of the US education system. The “no child left behind” policy is absolute garbage.
History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.
I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can’t know what a world was like before an event if you weren’t aware of it.
How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they’ve heard references to it. It’s yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.
On a wide side note, I had an amazing Ancient History instructor in college. First day he told us not to bother getting the text for the class, we’re not using it. He took us on an incredible ride.
Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught.
Fuck you, I’m not old!
When I was in schools, American history was Pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, The Great Depression, and WWI. Then it was summer. We might have a school assembly in February to talk about MLK.
If you were to ask my teachers, American history goes revolutionary war, then nothing happens for awhile, then the civil war, then nothing happens for awhile, then WW1 had to happen so that we could have ourselves a WORLD WAR TWO! The four years that make up 9/10ths of American history. And then the Japanese signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri and then stuff I-the boomer history teacher-personally remember so it legally can’t be history.
It’s so great that the US single handedly won the only war that ever happened in Asia. Good thing there hasn’t been any major conflict on that side of the world since then.
It’s kinda clear how the curriculum was designed, after all according to this class Japan was only discovered in 1939. Russia pops in an out of existence, Korea and Vietnam are fictional and Africa is where Egypt is.
Did you finish school prior to 2001? Cuz, I mean, that’s everything I learned in school too at that time.
But my daughter is 13 now, and I can confirm that she has been formerly told about 9/11. I don’t think with as much detail as she will learn in her during her high school tenure, but she at least knows about it.
Oh yeah. I was in high school when 9/11 happened.
My son asked me if I learned about 9/11 in school … and I was like uh yes, in a way.
(I was sitting in my psych class watching it happen live)
Yep. And with each successively later era in history being more and more rushed because the history teacher was always behind schedule and the big standardized tests at the end of the year ate up a lot of time.
And then next year, in the next history class, you start over at Pilgrims again! Only difference is that now there’s a little bit more detail and you’re expected to write an essay about it instead of just answering some multiple choice questions.
On the drive between my house and the nearest significant town, there’s a house which has a small replica of the twin towers on their front lawn. One is labeled “never” and the other “forget.” They’re set at an angle from the road so you see first one, then the other. The first few times I drove up here I forgot (perhaps ironically) that they were there and thus was surprised to see the twin towers with “never” written on them.
In the opposite direction is a house on the intersection of three roads. I think the owner sells snowmobiles. In his front yard is a shipping container with snowmobiles in it. Atop the container sits a life sized Trump mannequin on a snowmobile giving a thumbs up to the main road. On the container “LAW + ORDER = :)” is spraypainted. Across the yard is a shed with “WAKE UP!” spraypainted on it.
The former, fine. The latter - no matter your politics, and I’m certainly not intentionality expressing mine here - seems a bit excessive.
Across the yard is a shed with “WAKE UP!” spraypainted on it.
But I thought they didn’t like “woke” stuff?
i REALLY want to go out there and carefully plan to paint over the first one and change it to LET’S GO BRAND and make it look like dingus ran out of space
o no I 💀 forgor 🗿
Homeschooled…
Many people are just alien tourists
Well, I was in the third grade when 9/11 happened, and there was never any kind of formal education about it, because we had all experienced. Kids a just a few years younger than me would t remember it at all, but likely still wouldn’t have learned about it in school yet. That’s probably where this guy falls
I had to do a bunch of my own learning about the gulf war. Similarly, it happened before I was born but recent enough that history teachers didn’t consider it history. I now think it set the stage for a lot of the US geopolitically and I really should’ve learned about it in school.
Never forget 1973/9/11!
Poor Chile! They didnt deserve that one. Cant say the same about to the U.S though.
Is that a hotel front desk?
The equivalent would be someone in 2001 not knowing something that happened in 1976.
We landed on the moon!
Don’t make me feel older
Did ya tell him how much people went in circles trying to explain who did it but it was really territorial control and we kept switching who did it and then killed Osama bin Laden as a world distraction.
What happened?
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Well, to be precise:
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But the ones in here comparing it to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Holocaust need to get some perspective. It was a pivotal moment and a serious reality check for the Americans, but it was not the Holocaust.
Some American heros crashed a plane
Literally yes (in the sense that they were the proximal cause of the crash, not the ones flying).
Are we sure even happened?
Bruh.
Can jet fuel melt steel? 🤔/s
