Re Is New York's preternatural calm a sign of resilience or is terror the new normal? | US news | The Guardian

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
> Date: November 5, 2017 at 10:30:34 AM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Is New York's preternatural calm a sign of resilience or is terror the new normal? | US news | The 
> Guardian
>
> In article <701F83CC-5B75-4CF0-8F37-05B524A727D1 () me com> you write:
> > I think it’s a mark of  resilience
> > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/04/new-york-calm-resilience-terror-truck-attack
>
> This article has some peculiar assumptions.  Apparently it is now a
> problem if people do not overreact and freak out at anything called
> terrorism.  Terrorist attacks in the US remain vanishingly rare and
> it is entirely reasonable for people to do exactly what they were
> planning to do in lower Manhattan.
>
> Here's a thought experiment: imagine that the same truck drove in from
> NJ, headed to lower Manhattan, but then it pulled over and a white guy
> with semi-automatic guns jumped out and killed and injured the same
> people in the same place.  What would the punditariat be saying then?
>
> R's,
> John
>
> PS: for added versimilitude, imagine that instead of yelling "Allahu
> Akbar" he yelled "Blood and Soil."



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