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The United States is “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today”

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Let's remember, the FBI at the time felt it was a good idea to try to kill King. Injustices aren't new, and in some ways have improved a lot.
 
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Antiwar said:
MLK adopted Malcolm X's thinking?

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The United States is “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today”: We Hear Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speech Against the Vietnam War On the 35th Anniversary of His Assassination

It was 35 years ago today in Memphis, April 4, 1968 when Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated outside his hotel room. Memorials are being held across the country this weekend to commemorate King.
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Given that the Cultural Revolution was ongoing in China(in which at least hundreds of thousands of people died, and possibly as many as twenty million in the course of the whole event ) in 1968— not to mention th existence of the Soviet Union— the claim that the US was the “greatest purveyor of violence“ is dumb.

Malcom X was murdered by his own organization for daring to renounce their fanaticism(and willingness to tolerate connections with white supremacists).
 
Tigerace117 said:
Given that the Cultural Revolution was ongoing in China(in which at least hundreds of thousands of people died, and possibly as many as twenty million ) in 1968— not to mention th existence of the Soviet Union— the claim that the US was the “greatest purveyor of violence“ is dumb.

Malcom X was murdered by his own organization for daring to renounce their fanaticism(and willingness to tolerate connections with white supremacists).
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By the logic of those who hold that violations of national sovereignty and use of aggressive war is the greatest crime a nation can commit, a national government going to war and killing ten thousand civilians of another nation is worse than a national government which systematically organizes the murder of ten million of its own citizens within its national borders.
 
Felis Leo said:
By the logic of those who hold that violations of national sovereignty and use of aggressive war is the greatest crime a nation can commit, a national government going to war and killing ten thousand civilians of another nation is worse than a national government which systematically organizes the murder of ten million of its own citizens within its national borders.
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The scary thing is that the Cultural Revolution killed far more civilians than died in the course of the entire Vietnam War.
 
Tigerace117 said:
The scary thing is that the Cultural Revolution killed far more civilians than died in the course of the entire Vietnam War.
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Too true. And that is to say nothing of the Great Leap Forward which ended just a couple years earlier. That scheme in mass-starvation may have killed as many Chinese people as the total number of people who died world-wide as a result of the Second World War, anywhere from 15 up to 55 million people by varying estimates. Even if we go with the lower estimate of 15 million deaths, that still makes the Chinese Communist Party responsible for more death and mass-murder of Chinese people on Chinese soil than the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. Which is really saying something, since the Japanese were particularly wanton in killing, and some even made the mass-murder of Chinese PoWs and civilians a sport amongst each other.
 
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Malcom X was murdered by his own organization for daring to renounce their fanaticism(and willingness to tolerate connections with white supremacists).
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A conspiracy theory?
 
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