"…That’s right, the same T-shirts you see Hollywood celebrities, starving pseudo-artists and confused hipster teens wearing around local coffee shops. To all those who decide that you want to be coffee house communist-chic, remember this: When you are wearing a Che T-shirt, you’re wearing the same shirt that makes terrorists believe you’re just one of the gang. I hope that latte is tasty.
How Che became such a revered superhero of the hard-core left is laughable. First of all, he wasn’t even a good revolutionary. He failed in his attempt at world revolution almost as badly as communism has failed in the places it was actually tried.
“This is a history of a failure” is how he himself described his efforts in the Congo. He was killed in Bolivia, trying to fire up another failure of a war. Earlier, he even managed to drop his gun and shoot himself in the face.
But more important than his incompetence is the fact that the man was a mass killer. Hundreds were reportedly executed on his watch, and that doesn’t include the deaths incurred in the wars he was constantly trying to start. He described his maniacal lust for war in his writings, saying he savored “the acrid smell of gunpowder and blood of the enemy’s death.” How this guy is a hero to the anti-war crowd is truly perplexing…"
I don’t know that he’s a “hero to the anti-war crowd” as much as he’s an icon of revolution, especially revolts against classism, and for social reforms. He’s become a symbol of rebellion against established society in general, more so than a symbol of the guerrilla warfare he promoted. Which makes it more than a little ironic that those T-shirts have become firmly entrenched in current pop culture…
Dammit, I love Depp’s acting ability, but the sonnovabitch wore the Che silhouette as a cameo on a necklace for pubphotos. So OK, maybe he’s not as much of a useful idiot as Jimmy Carter was certifying Hugo f******g Chávez winning the last “election” as president of Venezuela, but he’s still an idiot–as is any commieleftwingpinkofag.
It does piss me off seeing kids wearing those shirts. I remember in high school some of the dumbest kids I knew would be seen wearing them. They likely didn’t even know the guys name, let alone anything at all about who he was or what he believed in.
Impenitent: absolutely… the dead of chicago never voted for chavez…
K: there you go, living in the past again.
I am one of the few around here, that was actually alive 48 years ago and I was a toddler.
The past is over with, it is done. You can’t change that book. Move on.
Yes, my statement was intended to be taken as sarcasm. Anyone who’s seen the movie knows it was only a partial, and very sympathetic, look at how his experiences as a young man formed the revolutionary that he became.
What, because the Left is still pissing about not being able to rig the election here in 2000, it’s only fair that you should be able to put the fix it for f*****g Chavez? After all, everything is subjective…when necessary. (The door someone is at is a brick wall. )
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