The real MLK was a radical.
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@amerpie It's speech like this that got him assassinated by the FBI. They want you to think it was some crazy racist who assassinated him for civil rights, but it was the FBI who killed him because he started criticizing capitalism.
@DirtyAnCom @amerpie As is the case for many of these types of killings, it is fully possible for authorities to be responsible at the same time as they are not actively contracting a murder.
I know far too little about this specific case, but a very plausible hypothesis in general is that authorities lets someone be killed through inaction, stokes antipathy towards the person, or even provides resources to violent people.
There’s a whole spectrum of this, and all could be called ”killed him”.
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In my observation for what it's worth, he was not a "radical", just a decent, caring, thoughtful human being.
Generations of corporate media has tried desperately to surpress, erase, distort and vilify the man, just for being that kind of person.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
@amerpie I hate this holiday because the hypocrisy is palpable. While alive the government did their level best to literally and figuratively destroy this man. And now that he's dead, they've co-opted and watered down his messages to a kindergarten-level "we should all get along" thing.
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In my observation for what it's worth, he was not a "radical", just a decent, caring, thoughtful human being.
Generations of corporate media has tried desperately to surpress, erase, distort and vilify the man, just for being that kind of person.
@Ultraverified @amerpie In an indecent, uncaring, and thoughtless society, that is radical.
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@DirtyAnCom @amerpie As is the case for many of these types of killings, it is fully possible for authorities to be responsible at the same time as they are not actively contracting a murder.
I know far too little about this specific case, but a very plausible hypothesis in general is that authorities lets someone be killed through inaction, stokes antipathy towards the person, or even provides resources to violent people.
There’s a whole spectrum of this, and all could be called ”killed him”.
@ahltorp @amerpie What we do have confirmation of is that the FBI sent him a threatening letter demanding that he kill himself or else they would release evidence of his affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_letter).
The Trump Regime released thousands of files related to his assassination (as part of the "flood the zone" strategy to distract from everything else), but as far as I know, there's nothing that explicitly admits they were responsible for his assassination, beyond that they saw him as a dangerous adversary. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-releases-fbi-records-on-mlk-jr-despite-his-familys-opposition)
I just firmly believe they were responsible, whether directly or by proxy, like you say.
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@amerpie I don't think was as controversial back when it was said.
I don't think there is anything making you inherently evil if you criticize capitalism, so even today, you might come across as naive, but you're not really Stalin, though.
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@amerpie Many young people are so angry at the excesses of capitalism that they want to tear the whole thing down. But somehow they fail to appreciate that the right-wing politicians tearing things down are agents of capitalism.
@humourmetom @amerpie
If you step back further you realize that the communist elites and the capitalist elites are identical apart from their costumes and fairy tales they speak out loud.The only way out of the lies os to realize both systems must coexist for durable peace. Either "ism" one on its own can only end in tears.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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