''Every seat in the theater in LA filled up so Bernie went outside to talk to the people ... ''

[EffieBlack]

51. Nothing wrong with it

But if people are going to rave on and on about how he used his privilege to lead sit-ins in the early 60s, it also bears mentioning that he then used his white privilege to, instead of staying in Chicago or returning to New York or going down South to fight for the cause, he made the choice that his privilege provided him to walk away and move to one of the whitest states in the country where he was unlikely to live near or regularly encounter people of color or encounter or engage in the civil rights struggle in any meaningful way for the next 50 years or so.

So, not mad at him, but a little tired of his fans holding him up as some kind of a civil rights icon. It's not only inaccurate, it's insulting to the people who really DID use/give up their privilege and those who didn't have any privilege to give up but sacrificed and fought in the trenches while Bernie was up in Vermont.