Truth, strike two

[ciphergoth]

Thanks for some interesting and surprising responses to the JFK question. At the risk of creating more heat than light, let me try another example, one that I think might be a little less comfortable to be neutral about.

It seems that many people believe that on the morning of September 11, 2001, four thousand or more Israelis who were working at the World Trade Center did not show up for work.

Are those people wrong?

(Update: amended as per ajva's caveat)

Comments

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Yes, although I would amend your proposition to the following:

"It seems that many people believe that on the morning of September 11, 2001, four thousand or more Israelis did not show up for work at the World Trade Center, because they knew in advance about the attacks."

Just for avoidance of doubt. Otherwise someone is bound to say, "well of course 4,000 Jews didn't turn up to work there on that day; there are after all tens of millions of Israelis/Jews the world over who didn't ever turn up to work at the WTC, and on 11th September 2001 they didn't either..."

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Done, thanks. I chose this one because I think it's reasonably easy to screw down, and in any case the gulf between what the conspiracy theorists believe and what everyone else believes is so vast that hopefully no-one will piddle about asking if 3,999 Israelis and one person whose citizenship application was in the post turning up to work half a second too late would count.

[actionreplay.livejournal.com]

The conspiracy theorists all made a beeline for ground zero on the 5th anniversary of the attacks in 2006. As I was on my way to work (emerging FROM the train station at the bottom of the big hole in the ground) there were all these, um, interesting looking people everywhere with "911 was an inside job" on their tshirts.

I hope they didn't interrupt the memorial services.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

While troofers annoy me plenty, I think they're a model of sanity compared to the people who believed the above.