Taylor Lorenz Gets Absolutely Wrecked for Calling 9/11 a ‘Punchline’ That ‘Many Believe The US Deserved’
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New York Times and Washington Post alum Taylor Lorenz is getting raked over the coals online for calling the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent people a “punchline” on Thursday.
Reacting to a post from another user condemning the baking of a “9/11 cake” on X, Lorenz wrote:
“You don’t have enough respect for the sanctity of 9/11” is such a ridiculously out of touch and frankly boomer ass take in 2025. 9/11 has been a punchline for over a decade, ppl are having 9/11 themed parties and there are 9/11 parody t shirts and memes all over.
“Young ppl today also correctly recognize that 9/11 didn’t happen in a vacuum, it was a direct response to/consequence of US foreign policy in the middle east,” she added. “The more u know abt what the US has done in the middle east the more u understand why many believe the US deserved 9/11.”
Online, the response from people of all political stripes was about what you’d expect.
“GenX here. Three people I knew died in the towers, human beings just like Taylor Lorenz, who got on the subway and went to work one day and then suddenly while they were drinking their coffee they had to decide whether to jump or burn to death,” wrote The Washington Post‘s Megan McArdle. “Not a fucking punchline.”
“Bashing Taylor Lorenz is too easy. There will always be crazy assholes like her, clamoring for attention,” observed economic commentator Noah Smith. “Instead we need to ask why, as a society, we elevated Taylor Lorenz to be an important public intellectual, and gave her important jobs at the country’s top newspapers.”
“I think we all know that Taylor Lorenz is not mentally stable and none of us would be surprised one day to read of her untimely demise,” submitted conservative radio host Erick Erickson. “She needs help and an intervention and she needs a lot of prayer. She is simply not well.”
“Young people (not Lorenz) cannot appreciate how horrifying 9/11 was for those old enough to experience it,” observed the Manhattan Institute’s Jessica Riedl. “My translation for younger people is to imagine another school shooting. Except its 3,000 victims instead of 10. And on live TV. And you wondered if your school was next.”
Lorenz has also been criticized in recent days for celebrating former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and championing Luigi Mangione, the man who has been charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson late last year.
