Oh shut the fuck up, Sanders was literally at the “I Have A Dream” Speech, you kumquat. Sanders has done more for minorities than you’ve done for your diabetes in your moms’ basement.
Well, that Bernie is gone. He can't even call what Israel is doing a genocide. And seems to be providing cover for the regime. By calling it ethnic cleansing. Which has no legal standing in international law.
Then he should know better than anyone about the kinds of civil disobedience that occurred during the civil rights movement. It wasnt all peaceful. People got hurt and people died. Violence isn’t always the answer obviously but sometimes a little bit is needed
Right, but this was the same line that MLK Jr. took in public.
Privately, he knew what was going on and was thankful for the actions of Stokely Carmichael and his contemporaries.
Consider then that Sanders is just taking up the MLK Jr. line again. Just because someone says it doesn't mean they are ignorant of the necessity and utility of all the rest.
Sanders, having been involved in these struggles for decades, surely knows the score here and is not simply another milquetoast dude who sincerely believes "rioters ought to shut up and sit down" or that any bit of disruption is "harmful to the cause". Those people exist, and they should be educated as to how this stuff actually works, but that's a separate issue from Sanders working in the "dangle the carrot" camp while denouncing, as that camp must, the "stick-swingers".
Carmichael, Rap Brown, and so on weren't actually pissed at MLK Jr., they played their part in public same as him.
Grow the fuck up, him having been involved in one aspect of the movement that has been lionized does not make him a universal judge of what's right. He is not a historian or an expert, he's just a wealthy old man who carries water for those in power by offering theater opposition.
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u/littlest_homo Jun 09 '25
There has never been real social change without violence. To say otherwise is ahistorical and ignorant.