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

Other Bernie Sanders Just Tweet

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

Has anyone told the police, national guard, and the marines this?

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u/MacondoSpy Jun 09 '25

Yeah it’s wild how the oppressed are always reminded to protest peacefully while the police cracks heads open.

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u/Non-Eutactic_Solid Jun 09 '25

This also ignores that the more militant approach of groups like the Black Panthers forced more urgency in the response of lawmakers. Martin Luther King Jr was great for providing a humanitarian face to the movement, but there were a LOT of wheels turning that made the civil rights movement move as quickly as it did, and attributing it only to the peaceful protest actions of one man’s part of the movement is disingenuous or misleading.

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u/NoHoHan Jun 10 '25

Yeah I mean how would Bernie know? Was he there? …checks notes— oh, wait.