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Let's get some perspective on this.
On one hand, you have people (New Yorkers) who have lost friends, family and loved ones in a terrorist attack.
On the other hand, you have people who are outraged because the first group of people have expressed distaste over a movie that they feel exploits the tragedy that they have lived through.
Now who is trying to pull the high moral ground in this debate?
Well, of course the people who just want to enjoy their monster movie.
But assume for a second when you're writing your replies that your reader is someone who was DIRECTLY impacted by the terrorist attack - someone who lost their wife, their parent, their child, their best friend. Maybe some of you would be a little less glib if you thought your post was being read by someone whose entire life had been turned upside down by the attack. Of course some of you wouldn't. A lot of people who post on these sites are just unrepentant assholes.
Apparently a lot of people are really bothered that New Yorkers haven't fully "let go" of 9/11, that some are upset or annoyed that it has become grist for the pop cultural mill.
Fair enough. But from now on I will no longer feel any sympathy for any other group that finds offense in a movie. Fuck 'em.
And I'm not going to snivel any more over the people who are dying in Iraq. I mean, could you anti-war people stop being so sanctimonious? Get over it!
Hey, you know they just made a comedy about Guantanamo Bay? I saw the trailer. It's called "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay." Can't wait to see it.
Hey, it's all good!
