Do you think its a bad thing most kids today won't remember what happened at Ruby Ridge?

[Udel]

Seems like an imporatant part of history. Shows how our federal government devolved in a web of bureaucracy (which we continue to expand).

 

[ruffilb]

I think it's easy to tell that that's true without remembering it.

(P/N?)

 

[Udel]

Originally posted by: ruffilb
I think it's easy to tell that that's true without remembering it.

(P/N?)

Don't need to discuss the politics of it. Just what people think of it in retrospect.

 

[iamaelephant]

Ruby Ridge?

 

[Fiat1]

No, they won't remember what happend on 9/11

 

[hg321]

Sadly this is a true story

My son and I where talking about the revolutionary war and he said "It's a good thing the British did not win the war or they would have hung the signers of the Dec. of Ind. as traitors.

My 13 year old daughter replies "So who won the war, US or Canada"

 

[pontifex]

they'll remember who won the 6th season of American Idol instead.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: pontifex
they'll remember who won the 6th season of American Idol instead.

Sad but true

Nate

 

[JulesMaximus]

Ruby Ridge?

J/K-The guy really wasn't completely blameless in that debacle though. I feel bad for his children more than anything.

 

[BDawg]

I think a bigger problem is the people who attribute Ruby Ridge to the Clinton Admin.

 

[waggy]

my 13 year old sister-in-law has no idea what ruby ridge was. i don't think they teach it in school.

though they will not forget 9/11. they will drill that into the kids heads (they need a reason for giving up stuff)

 

[Queasy]

Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzalez...all will be passed over as mere footnotes in history. Better to teach how everything in the world is the American White Man's fault.

 

[darkamulets]

O.O sad indeed.

 

[edro]

The reason no one will remember it isn't because they don't care. They will not remember it because it has had zero impact on our lives (especially their lives).

I equate Ruby Ridge to the Runaway Bride as far as historic events are concerned.

 

[ryan256]

Hell... I'd bet most people here have no idea what happened at Ruby Ridge and will have to google it. The incident was a very trajic event in which federal agents grossly overstepped their bounds and murdered 2 innocent people. One of them a 14 y/o boy.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: waggy
my 13 year old sister-in-law has no idea what ruby ridge was. i don't think they teach it in school.

though they will not forget 9/11. they will drill that into the kids heads (they need a reason for giving up stuff)

i'm not sure why they would teach that in school to begin with? where would that fit into the class?

 

[Crucial]

I'm 31 and I had no idea what you were talking about. I had to google it.

 

[BigJ]

If it winds up being important in the view of historians, it will be taught.

I graduated from HS two years ago and had no idea what Ruby Ridge was until googling it just now. I was 6 years old in 1992. I'm supposed to remember that? Most "kids" today (I put kids in quotation because I'm not even a teenager anymore, and so kids would have to be those younger than me) didn't give a damn about what happened there when they were 6 years old or younger.

I ask you this:

Why should it be taught in class?

Also, what I think is a bad thing is that older people feel they're superior in some way to the new generations because they remember some obscure piece of history.

 

[purbeast0]

<--- 24 and has no clue what Ruby Ridge is.

 

[Specop 007]

Ruby Ridge...Waco...

Perfect examples that at the end of the day the government is supreme and you have NO rights.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in Utah with that one guy who has a "cult". (Cant think of his name right off, I'm just frickin dumb this morning)

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: waggy
my 13 year old sister-in-law has no idea what ruby ridge was. i don't think they teach it in school.

though they will not forget 9/11. they will drill that into the kids heads (they need a reason for giving up stuff)

i'm not sure why they would teach that in school to begin with? where would that fit into the class?

High schools have American history classes that end in the 1970s. I'm sure in 10-20 years we'll have this too.

I didn't know about Ruby Ridge until I read this forum post, and then I googled it. American History courses deal with much larger events than this typically. I was too young in 1992 to learn or care about the events. Given their recentness, I wouldn't expect them to be highlighed in a high school course for another 10-20 years at least.

 

[waggy]

while not a huge event i think something like this should be talked about in school.

 

[wasssup]

isn't ruby ridge that thing in ff7?

 

[JEDIYoda]

wasn`t Ruby Ridge indicted in the Enron Scandal??

 

[Udel]

Wow, this board is batting a thousand on some pretty recent history.