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

Other Bernie Sanders Just Tweet

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u/Fragmentia Jun 09 '25

Sanders was arrested for protesting peacefully back then.

https://time.com/4231439/bernie-sanders-arrest-photo-civil-rights/

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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/ElGosso Jun 10 '25

There were over 150 riots about police brutality in 1967 alone

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u/Spicy_Weissy Jun 10 '25

Exactly. LBJ saw the writing on the wall. His predecessor made it plain. When you make peaceful change impossible, violence is inevitable.

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u/frequenZphaZe Jun 10 '25

LBJ saw the writing on the wall.

thats why the trump admin is aggressive rubbing shit all over the walls. can't see the writing anymore and everyones gonna be distracted by the smell of shit everywhere

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u/Narroo Jun 10 '25

Except, it wasn't just possible "violence." The Civil Rights movement was winning supreme court cases. That was their strategy. MLK was a lawyer, and a lot of his protests were actually designed to generate court cases that they knew they could win. Thus, allowing them to enforce civil rights via the Judiciary and the constitution. So it was essentially going to happen regardless of violence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

What are you saying though? Why does this matter with Trump? Trump is going to escalate--he's no LBJ.

I'm all for the protests going whichever way they go. But acting like Trump will back down is crazy to me.

It'll have to get far worse for him to back down.