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Originally Posted by Drolefille
While comparing something to Hitler is the automatic losing argument of the internet world, I think that those people are making the best comparison they know how.
This, all this going around right now, is a cathartic response. The stupidity, the USA USA USA, the fuck you OBL burn in hell and the tears and everything. People needed it, it brings closure and even if most of it isn't the most mature of behaviors or words, it doesn't mean it's not useful to the people feeling/saying/doing those things even if they don't know that at an intellectual level.
We'll get past it and life will go on.
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Of course we will.
I think, as a New Yorker (but not one who was here during 9/11), I'm more willing to excuse the emotional responses as catharsis and finding "closure," than I am to accept these historic comparisons that make no sense. Note that I did not criticize the emotional responses, mainly the faux-intellectual blathering and assumptions that the War on Terror is over.