Regarding the Egyptian bombs.

[trochee]

I have nothing to add to what slit said here.

Comments

[tangy-apple.livejournal.com]

Yes, except there doesn't appear to be an egypt_hurts community. (and the last commenter--touchyphiliac--sounds like a real jerk)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

that there isn't such a community supports exactly the point she's trying to make.

[tangy-apple.livejournal.com]

Oh. Now who's being dense? ;)

It's just too hot today... like in Egypt.

(I get it now. I'll have more to say later when my brain's not melting.)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

it took me a few reads too. I wish what she's pointing out wasn't true: I consider myself a fairly progressive, open-minded, anti-racist white guy, as Americans go.

And yet the London bombings freaked me out -- why not the Sharm El-Sheikh ones? It's not a reaction I'm proud of.

[tangy-apple.livejournal.com]

I think they bothered me equally because I know people in both countries. Not sure why that should make a difference, but it did.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

They freaked * me* out
http://www.livejournal.com/users/imtboo/236374.html?nc=2

I posted that 8 minutes after it happened.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

No criticism intended of anyone, really. I did see your post about that. But yours (and slit's>) were really the only things I saw about this.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel criticized. I wasn't sure if you had seen it...
:)