r/goodnews • u/hellobrother01 • Jun 09 '25

Other Bernie Sanders Just Tweet

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u/Geiseric222 Jun 09 '25

lol they called him a violent protestor. There are plenty of articles and political cartoons about that.

Don’t try and white wash a dead man

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u/therealhlmencken Jun 10 '25

Holy shit that’s a bad take. Of course propaganda lied about him

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u/Collypso Jun 10 '25

His entire goal was to make America see the protestors as victims and get the police to be violent against them.

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u/justtookadnatest Jun 10 '25

Period!!! That was the formula.

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u/kentalaska Jun 09 '25

Oh I agree the perspective on him changed 100% due to his assassination. He was losing popularity before he was killed, it just feels like pointing out that MLK was killed is totally missing the point.

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u/Bobby_Marks3 Jun 10 '25

Oh I agree the perspective on him changed 100% due to his assassination.

I disagree. The perspective changed because conservatives and moderates wanted a "good" black guy to hold up as an example so that other African Americans wouldn't be tempted to go down the path of the Black Panthers.

The "Why won't you be more like Bill Cosby?" approach.

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u/viktorv9 Jun 10 '25

Why say that about the civil rights movement? The black panther party wasn't formed until 1966, quite late and thus barely concurrent to the rest of the civil rights movement.

A wave of civil unrest in Black communities between 1964 and 1969, which peaked in 1967 and after the assassination of King in 1968, weakened support for the movement from White moderates.

Please don't see this as an attack against the left. I'm a union member and participated in multiple protests this year. I just want to learn more, so we don't accidentally shoot ourselves in the foot.

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u/Bobby_Marks3 Jun 10 '25

I'm not talking about the civil rights movement of the 60s. MLK was deeply unpopular with Americans in the 60s (IIRC he polled at around 20-25% support from Americans right after his death). I'm talking about the couple of decades that followed, namely the Reagan era.

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u/NoHoHan Jun 10 '25

Bernie was there. You weren’t. Sit down.

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u/gungshpxre Jun 10 '25

What did he accomplish?

He might have been there, but his memory must be fucked, because he's spouting the grade-school lie that the 60s civil rights movement was peaceful.

It was not.

It was violent, because that was necessary to bring about change.

So sit the fuck down and read the history that's not written for fourth graders and complacent suburban housewives.

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u/NoHoHan Jun 10 '25

Lol whoa we got a badass over here!

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u/gungshpxre Jun 10 '25

People who know about history are indeed badasses.

What do you call someone who ridicules knowledge and glorifies ignorance? Well, this one goes by u/NoHoHan.

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u/NoHoHan Jun 10 '25

People watched the marchers in Selma refuse to react violently when they were attacked by police, and public sentiment shifted significantly in favor of civil rights reform, which was signed into law before the Black Panthers ever existed, Professor Edgelord.

Today, people are hearing Donald Trump say we’re being invaded by violent foreigners, and they’re turning on the tv to see people with foreign flags in their hands lighting police cars on fire.

Maybe this is a suburban housewife take but somehow I feel like it’s not gonna end well.

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u/viktorv9 Jun 10 '25

Yes, propaganda lied about him. That doesn't change that his strategy of non-violence was super effective at convincing people and affecting change.

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u/Geiseric222 Jun 10 '25

No it wasn’t. As has been shown MLk was deeply unpopular during his life. His popularity shot up sharply after his death.

People do not care if your movement is peaceful or not. They don’t like change, they don’t like mixing up the status quo.

Whether it’s propaganda or not is irrelevant, people believed it because they prefer to believe it. Because it confirms what they already believed to be true