do you laugh about or make 9/11 jokes?

People do this? 🤯🤦‍♀️

Joking definitely is a coping mechanism. A way to avoid the complex emotions beneath them. I know ppl are like that & sidestep a lot of things by joking or laughing it off.

To the one who posted this, I hope you’re brave & courageous enough to one day allow yourself to feel the emotions you might be running from. In case no one’s ever told you, you are allowed to be human & feel your feelings & express them, don’t run from or avoid em, there’s a miraculous healing transformative power that comes from braving the storms within you❤️‍🩹✨

When I was still in school every 9/11 they would make us rewatch the news broadcasts, the second plane hitting, people jumping out of the burning buildings, bush finding out in real time while he was reading to the kids, people’s interviews in the aftermath, etc.

I have 2 younger sisters who are just graduating HS next month and apparently they still do. So idk about uneducated. Maybe more so detached from it as a result of not being around for the direct aftermath I suppose

Uhm no. Wtf.

Joke about the people who died, the people who died as a result of the retaliation? Never. Joke about the day as a whole? Kind of? I've seen memes of people saying "they hit the second tower" when you're not expecting it that made me laugh. I think there's a difference in making fun of the thousands of people who were killed, and joking about a historical event you lived through is different. Hopefully I explained myself well and no one thinks I'm laughing at the pain and heartbreak.
Oh and I'm 33, was 9 when it happened. And I'm Canadian with no ties to NYC. That probably makes a difference too.

Edit because I feel like I need to clarify what I said a bit. It's a stupid online joke to have a video randomly bring up 9/11 when you're not expecting it. That's the "joke" I laugh at. Im chronically online so I end up seeing these videos lots, it's definitely a stupid internet joke. I'm not sure if you're referring to people actually making fun of 9/11 as I've not seen that.

As a New Yorker who was in Manhattan that day 9/11 is personal to me BUT even if not I just don’t see how jokes about the suffering of others is funny 🫠

I’m so confused as to why people would do this, I don’t know anyone who makes joke about 9/11.

Edited to add, I was I’m just going through basic training at the time and it started off a chain reaction which saw us go to Afghanistan and Iraq and saw so many more lives lost 😞

Never something to joke about or make fun about.

So I was 11 when this happened and it was on my mums 40th birthday. I came in from school and saw it all over the news (uk) and I knew it was bad but I didn’t understand until I was older just how bad it was! I’ve literally cried over what happened and I can’t even begin to imagine what the people on those planes, inside the towers or there families went through. It was one of the most evil acts in history so for someone to make a joke about it is disgusting and I would simply call out that behaviour. Imagine if that was your family? Yeah I’m sure you wouldn’t make jokes then. Some people are sick.

Young people joke about all the dark things now. I feel like it’s just a symptom of a chronically online/ meme culture thing and a generation of people who’ve coped with their trauma through humor. For example I saw so many people posting funny videos and stuff during the most recent floods and wildfires. gen z has already lived through a devastating number of bad life changing world events so everything is very unserious to them😅 not condoning the 9/11 jokes but yeah I agree with Jessica. Know your audience and do it in a way that’s not mocking victims.

Like during the pandemic did yall see those funeral homes/ hearses that had that funny messaging on their vehicles “don’t get vaccinated” or “we love antivaxers” or something 😭 it’s dark and not really funny when you think too hard about it but idk I still think it’s kinda funny maybe I’m wrong lol I can’t think of a single 9/11 joke on the top of my head that I would find funny but I’m sure they’re out there

I have dark humour but that day is burnt into my memory and it changed the world as we knew it. So no to 9/11 jokes. Nothing like watching thousands die in minutes live on your tv as a child.

I agree with you. I’m on the cusp of millennial and gen z. Our formative years are literally just disasters and trauma, dark humor is a coping mechanism to not go insane.

same I’m 95, a millennial but I relate a lot to gen z’ers

I'm glad I got my point across lol. I was worried people would think I was awful

I was 11 when it happened and living in NYC at that time. Literally nothing funny about it. And I’m not even that PC, one of my fave games is Cards Against Humanity. This is just one of those things that I cannot, will not, will never see the humor in. 😕

I was baby during 9/11 so I don’t remember it but I’d never laugh or joke about such a thing and I haven’t heard anyone else do that either that’s awful

I'm 28, was 4 in '01, and have definitely had a bit of a laugh when I've heard a joke about it - particularly when it's unexpected. Like someone said near the top of the comments, it's never about the loss people suffered or at their expense. Just another terrible thing that happened, so if you're not gonna cry you might as well laugh type thing

I laugh occasionally when my brother makes a joke we are really lucky our dad survived that day (he was late to work) so I think my brother uses it as a way to cope