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.

  • Signtist@lemm.ee
    19·
    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@lemm.ee
        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.