El-Sayed Sparks Outrage with Offensive 9/11 Social Media Post

It takes a special kind of tone-deaf to post a somber 9/11 video message while orbiting the same online circles that have treated that day like a punchline. Abdul El-Sayed is getting dragged because people remember the receipts, not because they’re looking for a reason to be mad. If you’re associated with Hasan Piker, a guy known for saying America “deserved” 9/11, you don’t get to act surprised when the internet notices the contradiction. You can’t mourn 9/11 on camera and keep company with 9/11 apologists off it.

This is not complicated. Americans aren’t asking for perfectly polished statements. They’re asking for basic respect. The families who lost people that day don’t need influencers and politicians auditioning for sincerity. They need leaders who understand that some lines are permanent. And “America deserved it” is one of those lines. If you won’t condemn it clearly, people will assume you don’t mean the memorial message either.

El-Sayed can fix this fast if he wants to. Put some daylight between yourself and the comment, the streamer, the whole sick posture that treats mass murder as karmic payback. Say it’s wrong, say it’s disgusting, say you were wrong to associate with it, and stop hedging. What never works is the familiar routine: post the tribute, ignore the baggage, then complain about “outrage.” That’s not outrage. That’s judgment.

The broader lesson here isn’t about social media etiquette. It’s about whether public figures can still say, out loud, that America didn’t deserve to be attacked and that the people we lost mattered. Conservatives have been saying that for decades, without the caveats. Decency on 9/11 is the bare minimum, not a branding opportunity..