People use Yahoo's search engine?

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Best comment on this story: "It almost makes sense that people stupid enough to use yahoo as a search engine are also stupid enough to not know who Osama was."

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[muffyjo]

It's reasonable to believe that teenagers today were only 3-9 years old when the twin towers went down and probably have not focused on it as it didn't bear relevancy to their world. I'd like to think their attempts to engage with the information now would be a good sign.

I expect there to be a lot of papers being generated in classrooms around the world on Osama Bin Lauden.

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

Not only may not have focused on it, but may have been actively shielded from it by their parents. My son was 4 on 9/11, and I deemed him too young to be exposed to the news coverage -- I didn't watch it at all while he was awake in the house (which, frankly, made for a nice period of respite for myself). We've talked about it since in general terms, and he's watched some of the contemporary coverage via YouTube, as well as the anniversary coverage, in the last couple of years, but he's got kind of an overview level of understanding, not a deep engagement with it. And he'll have to be counted among the teenagers who didn't know who OBL was, because when I mentioned it in the car on the way to school Monday morning, he said, "Who?" and only the fact that I was driving kept me from facepalming. But then when I said, "Uh. Leader of Al Qaeda?" he said, "Oh yeah, that guy," and asked where they found him, so all is not lost.