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Originally Posted by dissention
No, it will show the rest of the world how tacky and tasteless we are. His towers are fugly to look at. But I pray that the current name "Freedom Tower" is 86'ed.
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I was talking about tacky and tasteless in a Vegas thread but it's equally at home here..
"Freedom" as a name is bound to piss off some extremist group for a start and almost begs for a repeat of the awful events of 2001 to happen as I'm sure it would enrage those that destroyed the towers in the first place by waving the name "Freedom" in front of them..
As for Trump's idea... Well, they look too similar to the originals which is going to upset many families and be a grim reminder to anybody that sees them.. What a stupid thing to do..
If you were to ask me I'd question the whole moral issue of building anything there in the first place.. It's a site of a mass murder. It should be respected and left vacant apart from a fittingly subtle memorial and not have a great big f**king monument with a patronising name attached, but that I suspect is what the American mentality seems to want (no offence to any individuals in the USA but I tend to question the morality of the States far more than I did pre-9/11 and pre-Bush). Any large structure in my opinion would be vulgar, tasteless, obscene and an insult to the people that died that day..