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One terrorist at least disagreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing#Impact_according_to_McVeigh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bo
by boogies 6y ago
One terrorist at least disagreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing#Impact_according_to_McVeigh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing#Impact_a..., and considering his arguments context (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge) I think there was a grain of truth to his claims (though they don’t justify killing babies of course).
(The Oklahoma City bombing was the biggest terrorist attack next to 9/11 and yet never discussed in any history class I’ve taken, while the latter is discussed in virtually every class on any subject on its anniversary. Probably an interesting reflection of xenophobia (probably among other things) I think.)
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>The Oklahoma City bombing was the biggest terrorist attack next to 9/11 and yet never discussed in any history class I’ve taken No government sponsored curriculum is going to open the door to the very tough questions that the first two parts of that trilogy naturally raise. It's the same reason people are never taught about the Indian wars or Jim Crow south except that "they existed". If people learned about how many times the government straight up violated treaties it signed and how many times state governments intentionally used the forces at their disposal to disenfranchise blacks then people wouldn't trust the government. The career arcs of the kind of people who think these things should be learned don't tend to put them on the committees that set state curriculum.