#PaulKrugman

Jasmine M. El-Gamal ياسمين الجمل

jasmineelgamal

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

Lethality Jane

LethalityJane

I was 16 when 9/11 happened and have pretty clear memories of adults' responses. Exactly zero Americans took 9/11 "pretty calmly".https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440 Sixteen is one of those ages where yo

Amal Ahmed

amalahmed214

Oh so I guess using 2001 as a benchmark year more than a decade later was a coincidence https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440 Things I remember post 9/11: - My mom wouldn't go grocery

Pratik

PatelESPN

*laughs brownly*https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440 paul krugman out to a strong early lead for making stuff up in remembrance of 9/11 the anti-muslim sentiment was so rampant that it extended to all brown

Salim Furth

salimfurth

If you use deaths/m, which is definitely not perfect but much more accurate than cases/m, the two geographies are remarkably similar. The "US is uniquely terrible" narrative is solipsistic and

Dr. Erin Kane

Diana_monkey

this is such a bad, extremely white, take.https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440 Forever wars, the Department of Homeland Security, the PATRIOT act, the TSA, actual Muslims, and people who prejudiced people in an outbrea

Back off, Coronavirus

silver_shots

More patients died in nursing homes in New York (because of Cuomo's order) than have in the entire states of Texas, Florida, Georgia, or Arizona.The only "anti-science" at play is

Bruce Arthur

bruce_arthur

When smart people memory hole and sanitize the past you wind up where we arehttps://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440 Thinking about this. The legacy of 9/11 is a lot of things, almost all tragic,

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Oh gosh, I hope this doesn't mean the magnitude of the threat has been wildly exaggerated for political gain, media excitement and ratings, censorship orgies, and laying the foundation for

Jay Shelat

jshelat1

American exceptionalism is wild on the anniversary of 9/11. The attacks were not unprovoked. 9/11 was a tragedy, certainly, but it wasn't America's tragedy alone. We gotta decenter the US

Ken Haddad

KenHaddad

I'll never forget walking into my house after school on 9/11, not knowing much of what happened, and seeing my mother just crying, watch the TV coverage. My parents were

Dr Asim Qureshi

AsimCP

So @paulkrugman while you and your wife were benefiting from cheap airfare after 9/11, the lack of anti-Muslim sentiment that you allege didn’t take place, was entirely systemic and led

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

Good thread. @paulkrugman suggests a key motivator of the failure to act on coronavirus was active malevolence, not mere "executive underreach."I agree. And I'd like to add an additional point

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

As I said, payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy. But let me nerd out a bit on exactly why they're so useless right now 1/https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1292418243332919296 Econ 101

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

People who compare our unity after 9/11 to our division today are correct. America was shockingly unified after 9/11. That unity was turned by our leaders into war, surveillance, deportations,

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

cheryllynneaton

9/11 made me understand the anti-blackness of brown people. Because if you were black and made sure to dress a certain way and avoid associating with certain people, you were

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