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Thought you might like this article located here: https://right-thoughts.us/index.php/weblog/comments/stop_using_9_11_as_a_weapon/ Stop using 9/11 as a weapon People piss me off.  Like that’s news, right? The cynical standup who made a cheap bid for laughs off the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks needs to know there’s nothing funny at all about living with the aftermath, say disgusted survivors. Comedian Sarah Silverman’s flick, “Jesus is Magic,” pokes fun at the day of terror, calling the day tragic “because it happened to be the exact same day I found out that a soy chai latte was, like, 900 calories.” I think anyone who knows me, has read my stuff or can click my 9/11 category can say that I was, and continue to be, affected by that day.  I didn’t lose anyone...I don’t know why it hits me the way it does.  I can’t explain it. That having been said...For fuck’s sake, she’s not making fun of 9/11, she’s mocking her own selfish reaction. And it was funny.  I would gladly laugh at that joke, because it’s about her...and by extension, our...sometimes selfish reactions in the face of unimaginable tragedies.  Look at my previous paragraph...”I didn’t lose anybody.” Like everyone else who is, you know, a human, I immediately filter everything through the lens of how it will affect, has affected or might affect me.  The job of a comic is to find something we all recognize and make us laugh about it, either through sarcasm, absurdity or the art of the uncomfortable truth. There’s also a layer of examination of how some people react to things in a way that seems incongruous with the gravitas of the event.  The comedic device in question is knows as “the emotional disconnect.” People, stop looking for reasons to be offended.  The world is fucked up enough without this petty shit. Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and you cry alone