What Do We Mean When We Say “Never Forget 9/11?”

The main point of this “never forgot” meme is a tribute to the bravery of those who took extraordinary risk and made huge sacrifices to minimize the damage and suffering on 9/11.  That’s a good thing.

This lies in contrast to the normal use of “never forget,” which is essentially Islamophobia, with a covert threat of retaliation layered on top of it.  No one who was over five or six years old on 2001 could possibly forget this horrific event.