maybe I'm cranky

[gildedage]

Newsflash: Some Americans angry at college students for partying loudly at night

Comments

[alephz]

I think this is a good outlook.

[teaberryblue]

I also think it's unfair to assume that people drunkenly singing in the streets necessarily equates to unmitigated glee. Especially when those people are in the cities that were most directly negatively affected by the person who has died. Anyone who does has never been to an Italian funeral.

[liret]

So much yes. I can understand the theory that no death should be celebrated, but I don't think anyone has the right to get so moral and self-righteousness about the fact that people would dare to be happy that someone who was responsible for thousands of deaths over two decades been stopped. I don't see the celebrations as being about pure revenge, but I don't think anyone has the right to tell others they can't be relieved or even proud that this is finally done already.

[novangla]

Someone being not-okay or even self-righteous about celebrations or even revenge can still be relieved and proud of what happened, though! I'm very proud of our intelligence and military forces for accomplishing such a difficult mission, and for having done other work up to the point where, by the time bin Laden died, he wasn't even terribly relevant anymore. And my thought was that it should be a moment of relief, as opposed to celebration -- I don't think I've seen anyone who says that even relief is inappropriate.

[novangla]

I don't think it's fair to assume people are "telling others how to feel" any more than assuming that, as Tea notes, "people drunkenly singing in the streets necessarily equates to unmitigated glee." In both cases, people are trying to figure out how to digest and react to a rather complicated bit of news. A lot of the people I saw posting said quote (which, actually, isn't all fake -- just the first sentence of it is), as well as the ones quoting Proverbs ("Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth"), were trying to find a way to express in words why they weren't out partying and why it made them uncomfortable for the news to keep showing the people shouting USA! USA! etc. At least for me, I wasn't mad at anyone on my list saying "Thank God" or "America! Fuck Yeah!" or any of the many reactions, but the shots of the rally outside the White House made me feel a little queasy. Not angry at them, you know? It just didn't seem right. And I didn't bother to make a status about it because

[gildedage]

I think that's another way to understand it. The people who were posting it, at least on my flist, tended to be the preachy people. So it really irked me.