It makes my head hurt trying to unscramble this one.
As I understand it, many of those who object don't see it as a NYC issue, but rather a national one. Ground Zero has become the national symbol of 9/11, so even people who are not from New York feel like they have some right to comment on what happens there. And because they're not from NYC, they don't understand things like the size of NYC blocks, or that there is already a mosque much closer to Ground Zero that predates the World Trade Center. They just hear "mosque" and "two blocks from Ground Zero" and it flips them out.
There's much more to it than that, but I'm really stoned on Benadryl which is making it hard to formulate coherent thoughts.
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Date: 2010-08-22 05:25 pm (UTC)As I understand it, many of those who object don't see it as a NYC issue, but rather a national one. Ground Zero has become the national symbol of 9/11, so even people who are not from New York feel like they have some right to comment on what happens there. And because they're not from NYC, they don't understand things like the size of NYC blocks, or that there is already a mosque much closer to Ground Zero that predates the World Trade Center. They just hear "mosque" and "two blocks from Ground Zero" and it flips them out.
There's much more to it than that, but I'm really stoned on Benadryl which is making it hard to formulate coherent thoughts.