In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 every MAJOR comic in New York City was doing NOTHING but 9/11 jokes and crushing.

Patrice O'Neal did a bit about how he kept buying cheap leather jackets because the Arab vendors were having an "I didn't do it" sale.

A Syrian comic named Hood would go onstage, announce that he would like to open his set by doing something in the name of ALLAH, and he'd open his jacket to reveal a DYNAMITE VEST strapped to his chest.

The joke KILLED, figuratively. And it showed me how comedy has the ability to take the power away from unimaginable torments for a few seconds at a time. It unites people who don't agree on an issue by pointing out universal truths we HAVE accepted on the issue.

Patrice's joke about Arabs feeling persecuted spoke honestly about the mood at the time. Hood's dynamite vest joke, however insane, played on a suspicion that nobody would ever admit to feeling today because they'd be called racist.

so as requested im making a thread on what it was like for me being under SEND and my experiences of growing up as someones who was obviously struggling and school still failed to pick up i was autistic - ( TW - slight mention of self harming and eating issues ) - a thread 1/

i started receiving SEND support when i was 4, at the time i was undiagnosed selective mute, autistic, ADHD, dyscalculia and dysgraphia but had picked up on my dyslexia. when i was first under SEND they never discussed with me what that meant or why i was taken out of 2/

class constantly, they didn't even inform my parents for 2 years that i was struggling. i was put in a group at primary school for children who required extra support, so i received help for social skills, maths and english. If it wasn't already bad enough feeling different 3/

i was placed on the 'special table' with a teaching assistant for years and was still persistently taken out of class, by this point i was already feeling alone and completely singled out from my peers. i felt stupid and even when i tried my hardest it was never good enough 4/

this continued until i moved primary school when i was no longer made to sit at a 'special table' but was still taken out class constantly without being told why, at this age people started asking questions as to why i was taken out often too which being selectively mute 5/

THREAD: Ok, just sent the adrenochrome files by a contact. This has been ongoing for some time and many of us have been investigating it for a while. Below shows the lists they keep of children and their details, in their ‘detention centres’. This is a REALLY tough topic.

(2) Shortly after arriving at the Capitol, we saw a large group of young, angry, men who looked out-of-place tearing down temporary fences and yelling and trying to rile up the crowd of peaceful Trump supporters.

They aggressively pushed their way right up to the rear steps.