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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I really, really like this response from Benjamin Wittes   |
Number 2 is just wrong. What people will think about this going forward is formed right now, and history has proven time and time again that once emotional, significant events are put into one context or shapen into one story, it's just too late to add differing views.
So on the contrary, it's extremely important to add context right now, when things are still happening and people are still trying to grasp what's going on. Tomorrow is already a bit late, next week or next month is mostly way too late for most people.
Plenty of context was added to 9/11 after the fact, but that did absolutely nothing to stop rampant islamofobia, nor did it do anything to stop governments from turning their countries into legal surveillance states, (a development that still hasn't been rolled back).
(I wish I had more energy to affect the discussion in my own social circles like here on this board, but I just don't really have that in me right now.)