Monday, September 8, 2008

Am I missing something here?

Facebook, that wonderful engine of networking, has supplied me with my latest reason to be irritated.
Via the newsfeed, I discovered a party that several of my friends who attend another school are going to. The party is called, and I quote, "September 11th two thousand fun."
Tagline: We will never forget.....unless we get really wasted!!!!
The description is as follows (poor grammar faithfully reproduced): Yes we are fo real. Your probably asking yourself this cannot be legit. But it's totally cool cause Tom is half Indian and suffers from ethnic cleansing daily, and Andrew is from New York City and his dad worked in the World Trade Center. No but seriously we just want to get wasted on a Thursday night and it happens to land on 9/11.

WELL!!!!!!! They wanted to play beer pong and it so happened to be 9/11, so why not incorporate it?h!?!?! What IS the world coming to? It would be one thing if these kids were trying to be offensive. That would be annoying enough, but at least the offense would be intended. These kids probably think they're being amusing....maybe they even feel that in their own way they are honoring the day.

But the classlessness, the general crudity of it all astounds me. It is not amusing, it is not respectful. If you decide to drink on 9/11, kindly leave the tragedy out of it. Maybe some people will find you crass, but that's their issue and not yours. But tying the day to your reason to drink, justifying it with jokes about ethnicity........

I don't think I need to say any more for my utter disgust to be conveyed.

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