"It’s easy to lionize courage. It’s harder to reconcile it with queerness — especially when you’re a country still unsure how to celebrate a gay man without special qualifiers. In the aftermath of 9/11, Mark was praised as a patriot. But he was rarely acknowledged as a gay patriot.
...
Because to some, queerness complicates the hero archetype.

It shouldn’t.

But it does."
https://stranger.social/@prismnpen/114653839513843318
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https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-hero-saved-the-u-s-capitol-and-changed-the-course-of-history-59745be9fe2b?sk=5ebaeba3eee7d75faae5e363eabc1530

#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Sep11#MarkBingham #Gay

Mark Bingham saved lives. But his sexuality made his story harder for America to embrace. And so it did what it always does when queerness challenges its myths: it trimmed the truth down to something more comfortable. More palatable. More straight.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-hero-saved-the-u-s-capitol-and-changed-the-course-of-history-59745be9fe2b?sk=5ebaeba3eee7d75faae5e363eabc1530

#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Sep11#MarkBingham #Gay

If #Oct7 was the Israeli #Sep11, and we were comparing the proportionality of responses to the hijackers sneaking off with live hostages.

The #American military would have carpet-bombed the mountains of Tora Bora to flatten them.

And written off the hostages.

@Alon

Comparing #Oct7 to #Sep11 was going to inevitably result in a #truther culture.

The reality is that neither the #American people nor those of #Israel want to accept both as failures of the State to protect citizens, because then they’d have to actually hold “leadership” accountable while also being terrified.

I have no doubt Hamas is evil.

Hamas formed in a desire to break the Oslo Accords.

Netanyahu & the Kahanists were pot-committed behind their strategy after taking out Yitzhak Rabin.

If #Oct7 was like #Sep11, then it’s another instance of a State failing to protect its citizens.

#history #terrorism #security #nationalism

Today is a date that lives in infamy.

Remember?

https://sampathpanini.medium.com/dates-of-infamy-3d009ff99ab0

#history @histodons #Dec7 #Oct7 #Sep11 #trauma #tragedy #consequences #LessonsLearned

So #Trump allegedly committed at least two crimes on the anniversary of 9/11 in his first year of his presidency. I’m not surprised. #sep11 #trumpindicted #trumpindictment