The Guardian removed a 21-year-old letter from Osama Bin Laden after a TikToker urged followers to read the al Qaeda leader’s missive.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I was more trying to highlight the weirdness of feeling at the time that there was a wall of ultra-jingoistic nationalism in the wake of a huge tragedy (cf. the Dixie Chicks getting cancelled for not liking Dubya Bush), and then some people reading Bin Laden’s work and trying to have a level headed conversation about the causes, impacts and diplomacy going forward in the face of “Saudi operatives attacked us, let’s bomb Afghanistan(?!)”