Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt, thinks September 11th attacks were "defensible"

[afeelingunacted]

What the absolute fuck pic.twitter.com/ofyBwxxWBP
- Casey Stegman (querying) (@cstegman) November 16, 2023

• In a series of now deleted tweets the author condemned The Guardian taking down Bin Laden's Letter to America in which he reveals his reasoning behind the September 11th attacks
• Felker-Martin called destroying the twin towers "principled" and "

Comments

[skyillusion]

Some people - and by that I mean authors - need to have a small group of friends with whom they regularly talk to BEFORE they even think about tweeting stuff. OR when they want to argue/tweet they should first explain thet thing to a non-internet friend and see if they get it (I learned my lesson by trying to explain pros and antis to a non-internet friend)

[iamkeroberos]

Genuinely, what the fuck? Like… know it’s the age of toxic hot takes, but “Sept 11 was good, actually” is WILD.

[blahhhnata17]

The tiktok comments on the Osama Bin Laden letter I read yesterday were fucking wild I don’t know if I was in a twilight zone episode 😬😬😬😬

[iamkeroberos]

More and more I’m convinced nuance has died. You can look at what the Israeli government is doing and see how the majority of western governments are blindly supporting them and be upset and disgusted and devastated, but like… that doesn’t mean you should side with a literal terrorist who engineered a plan to kill thousands of civilians.

Also like, how fucking woke to be like “wow he had such good points” about an antisemitic misogynist murderer. Any point he may have made about American imperialism (i have not read the letter) has definitely already been made by people who aren’t Osama fucking Bin Laden.

[tsarinakate1]

This is an extremely small sample size based on 2 gen z, but i totally agree about them not understanding nuance. I'm a Big through Big Brothers and Sister and i try to provide answers to my Little that are nuaced and look at both sides, as best I can and she haaaaates it. She wants me to have a definite answr for everything and girlfriend thats not how most of this works

[roomgirl]

It amazes me that she never gets tired.

[killedthislove]

There is a huge, huge miles wide gap between "U.S. foreign policy is very bad and therefore leaves us vulnerable to attacks like 9/11" and "Bin Laden was right" and anyone who jumps straight towards the latter is an idiot.

I also agree with a tweet that I saw that said the number of people tweeting who were upset by this greatly exceeds the number of people who were actually saying any variation of "Bin Laden was right" and that the usual suspects will latch onto this in order to do their usual shtick about how the leftest youths are oh so misguided.

[louisebelcher]

My eyes kept getting bigger and bigger as I scrolled down