this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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The people that died on 9/11 were victims of US imperialism and it is a tragedy that they died. However 9/11 isn't about remembering the people that died, it's about the wound to America's pride created by the massive spectacle of the twin towers going down on national television. If America gave a shit about people dying we would have have a national day of mourning for Covid every year for at least the next 20 years, there were weeks when America had a 9/11 worth of people dying every single day. They don't matter because those people were dying in a hospital bed and there wasn't a spectacular wound to America's pride.
On the other hand, the people who worked in the CIA and the Pentagon were working directly to advance US imperialism and thus did deserve to get killed.