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Day 2 — September 12

9/12: When the World Celebrated Our Dead

Prominent voices called 9/11 “chickens coming home to roost.” Blaming the victim for their own murder didn't stay fringe — it's now common.

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September 12

Prominent voices called 9/11 “chickens coming home to roost.” Blaming the victim for their own murder didn't stay fringe — it's now common.

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Remember + Honor + Stand Together

Day 2 — September 12

9/12: When the World Celebrated Our Dead

Prominent voices called 9/11 “chickens coming home to roost.” Blaming the victim for their own murder didn't stay fringe — it's now common.

Most Americans had no idea, in the days after 9/11, just how many people around the world weren't grieving with them — some were celebrating.

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This reaction — blame the country that got attacked, not the people who attacked it — didn't stay on the fringe.

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September 12

Prominent voices called 9/11 “chickens coming home to roost.” Blaming the victim for their own murder didn't stay fringe — it's now common.

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Readings & sources

  • Andrew Anthony, The Fallout, pp. 3–19
  • Richard Landes, “Baudrillard and 9/11: Own-Goal Schadenfreude,” from Can the Whole World Be Wrong?, chap. 2
  • Richard Landes, “Kamala Harris' Pastor Amos Brown, Durban, 9/11, and Woke Y2KMind,” The Augean Stables, July 30, 2024
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