Mumbai under siege
 

Just before I left my computer to head to the Park, I clicked on CNN - I wish I hadn't. At least now I understand Jen's tweets.

Scores die in India; Westerners targeted

Mumbai rocked by deadly attacks

I feel ill.

Remind me to cancel The World from my travel plans.

OMG, just awful.

The head of the city's anti-terrorist force was killed. Many Westenrers are being held in the two hotels, even still.

Something to be noted, in my opinion. How much it feel to be a European, NOT an American or Brit, and targeted simply because you look like an American solely based on the color of your skin, or the style of your clothes?

Why can't humans get over their petty hate?

*sigh*

heh, Sorshah, I thought I just posted your post thanks to the avatar!

There were reports that they were checking people's passports to identify Americans.

This does present whole new theming opportunities for NA's New Year party.

People are dead. I don't see the humor.

To be fair, some people did not see the humor in the choice of NYE party theme to begin with (aka found it racially insulting), so let's please recognize that standards of humor differ.

Black humor, btw, is a classic form thereof.

Terrible, terrible. How sad for all of those families affected. I wish that people wouldn't so often see things in black and white. Such violent differences over ethnicity or religion or culture just don't make any sense to me.

Also, I'd hoped the election had changed some perceptions of the US - at least, shown that we aren't all behind the recent administration. But it's bigger than that - it was foolish of me to think it would change.

To weight in on the matter of humor... people deal with tragedy and adversity in different ways.

It will change perceptions among reasonable, thinking people. It will help reduce the propagandist ammunition that's used to turn reasonable, thinking people into terrorists going forward. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done for anyone who's already irrational and capable of senseless killings for ideological reasons.