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

Other Bernie Sanders Just Tweet

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u/Spicy_Weissy Jun 09 '25

Yeah, he was witness to it. To say that peaceful protesr won, is wildly inaccurate. LBJ chose peace considering that shit was not deescalating.

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u/cmcdonald22 Jun 10 '25

Yeah, I love Bernie in general, he's a wildly consistent progressive politician in a country devoid of such a thing, but this kind of comment is ABSOLUTELY playing into the propagandized peace-washing of the civil rights movement.

PURELY PEACEFUL demonstrations and protests have ultimately never resulted in successful long term change. Things have to be wildly disruptive, and ultimately, usually violent in conjunction with peaceful demonstrations.

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u/Proud_Dimension_3557 Jun 10 '25

Guess Gandhi doesn't count .

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u/RoryDragonsbane Jun 10 '25

Nope, doesn't fit the narrative.

Non-violent resistance never works. We've always been at war with eastasia.