re: #783 Spare O’Lake

When I saw the second plane hit the WTC on live TV in my Toronto office tower I was traumatized. This takes nothing away from the Manhattanites or the actual physical victims. I don’t understand why you would feel that folks who say they felt traumatized are showing insensitivity or disrespect for New Yorkers. In fact I don’t think New Yorkers would mind a bit if others felt traumatized. Surely 9/11 was an event which can be fairly said to have traumatized America…and Canada too!
So why don’t YOU cut the crap?

Gee, I don’t know. Maybe because you subtly use the experience to broad brush 1.3 billion people, as opposed to the several hundred directly involved in the 9/11 and subsequent attacks?

We are not at war with Islam and specifically American Muslims. Yet the actions of the American Right increases the chances that the same citizens that we should be embracing as brothers will be radicalized by the American Right’s actions.

It’s just plain rock dumb.

Just sayin’.