20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?

Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by Godel_unicode on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:23AM (#28457461)

Part of the problem in the current situation is that there is a ton of anti-science conspiracy nuttery. If you are going to dissent, you need to do so in a way that doesn't get pattern-matched with people who are clearly being irrational.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by aww_dang on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:31AM (#28457600)

Was it irrational to call critics of the post 9/11 world anti-American?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by Godel_unicode on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:47AM (#28466310)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_truth_movement

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by aww_dang on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:13AM (#28466485)

>Putting aside the hot potato of 9/11, we can hopefully discuss the issue of Iraqi WMDs in a less inflammatory way.

https://www.corbettreport.com/911-a-conspiracy-theory/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QFYn_G1lc

Wikipedia lends itself to exactly the kind of cringe worthy coverage I described above. Starting with the reliable source policy which has only become more partisan in recent years. All of those reliable sources were involved in uncritically promoting WMD propaganda.

Yes, there are nutters with nutty concerns. There are also nutters who wear shoes, but we don't conclude that we must go barefoot. The generalization is misleading at best and disinfo at worst.

[ Parent | on HN ]