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Because I’m white, it was easy for me to conflate the solidarity we witnessed on the ground among New Yorkers on 9/11 for some kind of colorblind national unity in the months and years that followed. The reality is and was vastly different.

When public conversation remains permanently fixated on raw, uncontextualized metrics of suffering, it forces individuals into a state of perpetual crisis. Real stability gets recharacterized as a delusion, and ordinary progress is discarded in favor of continuous moral panic.