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1. I don't know @paulkrugman so this isn't a personal attack. But to state that things "could have been worse" and that yay, it was a great time to go on a cheap vacation is stunningly offensive, hurtful, & incredibly tone deaf to Muslim Americans whose lives were forever changed https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304386259494764546
2. I remember my mother telling me about the attack on a Sikh man and fearing for her safety and emotional well-being as the only Muslim woman at her job. I remember fearing for my younger brother's safety because he looked "more Muslim" with his fro than I did with my blowout.
3. I remember George W. Bush saying on 9/13 that we have to "treat Arab Americans and Muslims with the respect they deserve" & then signing the Patriot Act into law on 10/26 whereby those AAs and Muslims were spied on, arrested, and deported in violation of their civil rights.
4. I remember being 21, questioning whether I was a patriot if I disagreed that we should bomb other countries in response. I remember a generation of Muslims that to this day has to prove its loyalty to America despite being born and raised there. Nothing returned to "normal."
5. If the U.S. took 9/11 "calmly" I don't want to know what the opposite of calm is. If "daily behavior wasn't drastically affected" I don't want to know what America would've looked like if it was. 9/11 changed the world forever. Most of all, it changed America forever.
6. ps. People weren't "for a while, afraid to fly." Muslims today still have reason to fear flying because we can get kicked off a US airline for saying "thanks to God" or "peace be with you" on the phone to our parents before takeoff. @paulkrugman's version sounds nice, though.
