I'm a former New Yorker living in the South now.
And I've noticed that the people who are most vocal about 9/11, and wear t-shirts, have twin tower stickers on their cars, etc, etc around here are the same people that hate New York with a passion.
anyone else see the irony in people who hate NY the most wrapping themselves in the image of the twin towers?
If they hate NY so much, why the hell do they care?
I'm sorry, but I hate it when people use someone else's tragedy as their own political tool.
2006-09-11 10:23:39 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
PS: yes, the pentagon was attacked as well... it's still not in the south
2006-09-11 10:24:06 · update #1
I am a Southerner who was married to a New Yorker and lived in New York for 9 years. I too noticed that many of my fellow Southerners who wouldn't have ------ on a New Yorker if they had been on fire were devastated about 9/11. It mystified me as well. I saw a yard out in the country with a giant Rebel flag flying and a large monument to 9/11 side by side. I can't begin to explain this to you. Unless it was a symbolic event in their minds and had nothing to do with New Yorkers personally. Cognitive dissonance anyone?
2006-09-11 10:30:53 · answer #1 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I know what you mean. I love NYC but haven't been there since 2001 for my own personal reasons. I have no bumper stickers, no flags, no tshirts. I was raised in and still live in Connecticut and NY is just as much a part of me as Boston because I live between those two major cities (unless you are talking sports then it's a whole 'nother issue.. ).
When I moved to the Midwest people asked me how I could love such a dirty place as NYC.. they couldn't stand it. My only answer is if you've ever spent any time there then you'll know.. until then you are blind. They like to pick at it because even though they have big cities nothing is like New York.
2006-09-11 17:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not care for New York very much as a city, but I still care about all the people who lost their lives because just like it was the twin towers, it could have been the Sears Tower. It doesn't matter where it happened, it happened to this whole country, and people all over the country are effected by it and have a right to express their feelings about it.
2006-09-11 17:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by beattyb 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even New Yorkers complain about New York now and then, and usually for good reasons. I've lived there, and it's not a perfect place; no place is. But NYC doesn't have to be perfect for people of all nationalities and Americans from all regions to be upset about what terrorists did there on 9/11/01. What happened there doesn't "belong" to New Yorkers. It was an attack on America and, in a very real way, on civilization itself.
2006-09-11 17:28:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. I don't see why anyone would hate NY with a "passion" but I do know people who do and they never have a valid reason for feeling that way, lol.
I love NY. It's so lively and beautiful. I am sorry for what happened to the WTC and there was more coverage on that then on the Pentagon but I'm not bitter about it. I live in MD (less than 20 mins. from D.C.) and I'm indifferent about both attacks. I didn't lose anyone in either attack but I do know people who did lose loved ones. I do keep them in my prayers and I'm sorry for them.
HOWEVER...
This did happen 5 years ago today. We do need to keep it in mind, but it's not right to keep playing those horrific videos over and over again of the towers collapsing. It's like throwing salt on open wounds. Why do it?
2006-09-11 17:31:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People have feelings for what happened to those people because it was very wrong and hurtful. Find one person who did not feel sad on that day. People don't like new yorkers because they talk down on the south for how they say some words when new yorkers don't speak so well themselves. Then they say the south is slow, but why if you all don't like the south, do you move here?
2006-09-11 17:29:29 · answer #6 · answered by Miss T 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was in NYC on 9/11 as a visiting student at Columbia. My mother railed at me for going "to that disgusting city" for weeks before I moved. Seven days later the towers were hit and she asked me to send her an "I heart New York" shirt. I can understand how people who hate the city would still sympathize with what everyone there experienced, but I don't understand the people who did a complete about-face in their opinion of the city in general.
2006-09-11 17:28:19 · answer #7 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally agree...I moved to the South from Phoenix 12 years ago and I heard about Yankees for first time since 8th grade history class upon arriving here...I was in shock that the Mason Dixon line still existed...It was a real eye-opener.
The only good thing about 911, now they hate terrorists more than Yankees.
2006-09-11 18:40:40 · answer #8 · answered by Denise W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has someone told you they hate New York? My family is from the South and they HATED what happened to those innocent people of 9/11. It would seem you would be appreciative seeing stickers and t-shirts to commemorate the fallen citizens and community service workers that died that horrific day.
Could it be they just don't like you? Sounds like you have some issues.
2006-09-11 17:30:46 · answer #9 · answered by blaze 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not in the south, no, but it is in the US. It sounds like you're implying that the southern US is a different country than the rest of the US. I'm sure you have family members that you don't particularly like. Does that mean you wont care if someone shoots them in the face? Odds are you'd be angry, and rightly so, even though you may not have been on the best of terms with that particular person. They're still family.
2006-09-11 17:28:22 · answer #10 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋