a lot of the comments from talking heads recently have been rather pointedly "New Yorkers don't understand how WE AMERICANS feel about this..."
No, I'm well aware of that. What I was trying ineffectually to say is that Ground Zero has become this great mythic thing to many Americans, most of whom have never even been to NYC before. It's like ... there's New York City and then there's Ground Zero, and they're two completely separate places. So, yeah, these folks think they have a God-given right to dictate what NYC should do in this instance, and are utterly baffled by the fact that NYC is (rightly) telling them to get bent.
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Date: 2010-08-22 05:52 pm (UTC)No, I'm well aware of that. What I was trying ineffectually to say is that Ground Zero has become this great mythic thing to many Americans, most of whom have never even been to NYC before. It's like ... there's New York City and then there's Ground Zero, and they're two completely separate places. So, yeah, these folks think they have a God-given right to dictate what NYC should do in this instance, and are utterly baffled by the fact that NYC is (rightly) telling them to get bent.