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In reply to the discussion: Dear Liberals: Being Critical of Islam Is Not Racism [View all]smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)My office was in the West Village at the time, not in the war zone, but close enough for it to be absolutely horrifying. Walking back to my apartment uptown that day with the shell-shocked survivors from ground zero covered in ash. Nobody spoke, people just marched back to where they were going with this dead, blank look in their eyes. i will never forget it.
For months, so many of us were completely freaked out - whenever the subway stopped between stations, when there was a backpack left unattended, anything out of the ordinary caused panic. I remember being in an Indian restaurant and they turned off the lights and turned on some strobe lights for someones birthday and everyone started screaming because we didn't know what was happening. That is terrorism. I hate them for that. I thought New York was a magical place before that day. I hate them for making us live in fear.
And eff anybody who were not there that day and feels like they have the right to judge. You weren't there and you don't know what it was like.