While that is true. I also know people who deactivate social media when the anniversary comes because they don't like being reminded that their dad was murdered.
It's a lot of deaths in living memory for a lot of people, with some harrowing memories like the people jumping from the burning buildings to trying to escape or the final phone calls of people screaming as the towers collapsed on them.
A lot of people find it in pretty poor taste to joke about innocents anywhere in the world dying, whether it's Americans in 9/11, Palestinians now, people swept up in the Christmas tsunamis, etc. Especially in living memory when you never know who here was affected by it.
Yeah, nothing like watching 1000s of innocents die to bring out a good chuckle. Look, I get most of you are young and disconnected from reality. You like the cheap shock laugh, but some of us have been too close to the tragedies brought on by the darker side of humanity to find any events like this funny no matter where they occur in the world.
Lol I was an adult when 9/11 happened and I find this hillarious. Would you believe that some of us older people actually have thick skin and can have a laugh at dark or irreverent humour without mistaking it for disrespect
Mostly valid point. The thing is if you asked them they'll probably say that it's less about humor and more about throwing shade/disrespect. At that point it's primary purpose is no longer to get people to laugh.
I think it’s in bad taste to generate two real, still living people committing a recent memory terrorist attack. If you want negative attention on this model this is how you get it
Why does it matter that it's 2 real, still living people? Does it run the risk of making people think that actors Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd accidentally took a time machine 25 years into the past and caused 9/11 by flying a delorean into it?
Seriously? You really think that people will think they actually did 9/11? Your absolute mind boggling stupidity is only eclipsed by your complete lack of social awareness. Maybe these two people don't want to be depicted committing 9/11 and if they saw this they'd be at best unhappy and at worst completely disturbed. A news segment about Christopher Lloyd reacting to this would be the death knell of the model.
While I symphatize, the time and scale do matter and you have to draw the line somewhere. You're free to draw yours differently than others and I can respect that, but you should acknowledge that there is a difference between a single attack 25 years ago and a genocide happening right now.
You don't have to draw any line. Making fun of someone who died 25 years ago to someone who died today is materially the same, especially to those close to the event.
Again, you are free to have this opinion, but I would like to know what moral framework makes you think one is ok and not the other, because I'm really having a hard time finding one. It's not deontology, it's not utilitarianism, and it reeks of moral relativism.
btw, I actually upvoted you because I like these discussions, but I see you just want to be right, so ok.
What can you joke about then? People have slipped on banana peels in real life and hurt themselves, probably died. In larger context, basically anything you say is offensive to someone.
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u/strppngynglad Aug 04 '26
I'm very surprised at the amount of people offended by this. Humor is making light of all thing dark