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We Must Bring People Together, Not Instigate Hatred
Bernie Sanders
Aug 4
Excerpt:
I am personally all too familiar with the barbarity that comes from hateful ideology. Most of my own father’s family was brutally murdered at the hands of Hitler’s white supremacist regime. That regime came to power on a wave of violence and hatred against racial and religious minorities. We cannot allow that cancer to grow here.
Our First Amendment allows anyone to hold any view they want — even hateful and repugnant ones. But it does not permit carrying out acts of treason against our country. And that’s what these attacks are. Nor does it or should it shield the online platforms from responsibility where the owners knowingly allow these violent extremists to plot and plan attacks on our people.
Finally, we need leadership in this country that is unequivocal in condemning violence and hatred. Instead, we have a president who actively demonizes racial and religious minorities, who coddles Nazis and Klansmen, and who wields white supremacy as a political weapon. Racism, religious bigotry, homophobia and xenophobia are not new. They have been with us since the founding of the country. But having a modern American president so actively promote hatred is new and must not be accepted.
We need a president — the person in the most trusted position in our government — to use that bully pulpit to appeal to the best in our nature, not instigate hatred and division.
That is our challenge, and that is our moral obligation to our children and our grandchildren.
https://medium.com/BernieSanders/we-must-bring-people-together-not-instigate-hatred-74072b21c83b