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Evan Hill
@evanhill
The fact is a lot of people even my age don't remember Zawahiri, and many young people never have known. Do a search for Zawahiri on TikTok, there's nothing. This isn't an endorsement of any position, it's a reflection on how even something like 9/11 can fade in popular knowledge
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Kelsey D. Atherton
@AthertonKD
Okay given that Zawahiri was plausibly a household name 21 years ago and I had to go to Wikipedia to remind myself his specific relation to 9/11, maybe Obi Wan had a point about how much people can forget in two decades.
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Dr. Sherifa Zuhur
@SherifaZuhur
Because a) ppl were never well-informed in the first place b) stopped reading - anyone who worked on this issue knew who he was and at least the basics of connex from Egypt to AQ to now.
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Alexander Simpson
@ASimpson1985
I once wrote "if kids only knew what life was like before 911 here" I was mocked and ridiculed as an old man, I was born in the mid 80s. My dad was a jockey and I remember when we lived in fort Erie we would goto the US without PP..
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