re: #998 SanFranciscoZionist

This whole discussion happened because you and Matrix are not willing to let other people define their own emotional response to 9/11 without condemning their feelings as inappropriate.

I am willing to let you define what you experienced as traumatizing. It’s not a word I will claim for myself.

That said, I am contemptuous of people who invoke the emotional associations of 9/11 as though they were supposed to override all other practical, social, or political considerations, or who use them for political leverage. Palin is very much in this category.

The Mahattan Project is very small potatoes in this, I had the BUT 9/11! conversation too many times in regards to the United States invading Iraq.

Now, why does it upset you so much to hear people define their experience differently from you?

You are dead wrong to accuse me of disallowing others from denying that they were traumatized. What I saw was Stanley Sea saying he was not traumatized, and I found that odd because I thought everyone was traumatized to one degree or another, so I asked him about it.

In your case your statement that you were not traumatized was not the problem - rather my problem was with your implication that folks who did so were somehow trying to horn in on the victims’ trauma…as if there wasn’t plenty of trauma to go around! So I called you on it, and you answered very well.

Now, tell me how you concluded that I was doing any of what you accused me of.
(Hint: Another poster first accused me of demanding to see Stanley’s papers like a nazi, and then she went totally apeshit on me.)