Imagine transcription: An image of Light Yagami, Misa Amane, and L from Death Note on a fiery background. The caption reads: “Did you know, in the anime ‘Death Note’ for copyright reasons, the milk has to be spelt ‘MLK’ on the cartons? Google ‘MLK Death Note’ to find out more!”. End transcription.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      11·
      5 months ago

      Ironic.

      Especially considering the first attempted assassination of MLK came from a schizophrenic black woman who was never allowed to talk to the press after she left federal custody, and the assassination attempt came in the middle of the MK Ultra tests. Favorite test subjects: Disenfranchised schizophrenics.

  • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    29·
    5 months ago

    Oh man I didn’t actually know about this, it’s enormously fucked up and absolutely unsurprising.

      • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        76·
        5 months ago

        It’s reasonably safe to Google, it’s about this letter where the FBI encourage Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide, using particularly abusive, dehumanising and degrading language. The content of the letter isn’t necessarily hard to read the if you want to read it, particularly as it didn’t work, but it’s still bad to know that this was an official government plot.

        • Signtist
          191·
          5 months ago

          Is there something I’m missing, or is this letter nothing more than an old-timey version of modern internet comments and conservative “LGBTQ+ people are somehow pedophiles!” claims that are as outlandish as they are unfounded? Like, how is claiming a reverend has secret massive orgies he’s clearly not having going to get him to kill himself? He probably just read this, said “Well that’s a load of nonsense.” and threw it away without another thought.

            • Signtist
              4·
              5 months ago

              Huh, that’s interesting. Though, how do you pick MLK specifically out of a recording of an orgy, let alone definitively enough for it to be damning to his reputation?

              • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
                5·
                5 months ago

                True. And I feel like it would also be hard to tell if it’s actually an orgy. Could have just been a dinner buffet and the food is really, really good. Or maybe he was just watching adult films with the homies.

                I’m guessing it wasn’t actually damning enough tho, according to wiki, “King’s wife Coretta Scott said the tapes comprised only ‘mumbo jumbo’”. And they didn’t end up releasing the tapes. Maybe we’ll see for ourselves in a couple years tho

          • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            12·
            5 months ago

            They didn’t have to be true. The implication was that they could make the public believe such things were true, which at the time would have ended him.

            Obviously in a reasonable world no one should give the slightest fuck about someone else’s orgies, but unfortunately a lot of people have puritan brainrot, which was much, much more widespread at the time.

            • Signtist
              4·
              5 months ago

              But they were writing the letter under the guise of just being some guy. I’d believe the government could make the public think I’m some sexual deviant, but not a random person writing a letter to me.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    5 months ago

    If someone’s shooting at you, you must be following the right clues.

    If FBI is shooting at you, you’re about to crack open something big.

    This is why it’s wierd that Putin signs all his wetwork. It totally reveals he has scandals worth burying.