(Serious) Redditors born after 1999, how do you perceive the 9/11 attacks and their place in history?

I was born in 98 and as I graduate this year in Canada I find myself struggling to see 9/11 in the same light many of my teachers do, I take advanced history and find that none of the genocides that occurred in the 20th century have a national holiday despite the immense death that occurred, that none of the millions who have died and are dying in wartorn Syria have a day of remembrance and yet a couple thousand that died in America do. It just makes me wonder how the lives of people who think they're safe value more than the people who lack that luxury, 9/11 is a day that will live in infamy but to me it if we are a society that values human life in general that it shouldn't place ahead of the of innocent lives lost in the former Yugoslavia, the racial cleansing in Rwanda, the bombing done daily in Syria. It just seems wrong to me as a student learning about the cruelty mankind is capable of inflicting. I truly believe it lives on because of the social media chaos surrounding it and embellishing it and not because of the lives of lost, because if made America a place of rampant fear and hate.

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