Why Do people love a mass murder like Che?

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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 should also point out what seemingly gets eliminated from the Hollywood movies attempting to glorify him: his bouts with racism. When describing the differences in the strife between "Europeans" and "the black," the supposedly progressive-minded Che wrote, "their different attitudes of life separate them completely: the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead."

Ohhhhh, so the "European" is a hard worker while "the black" is a fanciful drunk. Now I understand the difference.

I wonder if that quote would inspire the volunteer office of Barack Obama's Houston supporters to remove their Che flag. After it was spotted on the wall in a local news video, Obama's campaign, far from a haven for right-wing nut jobs, went out of its way to make sure everyone knew that it had nothing to do with the flag and didn't approve of its use. If Che were such a hero, why would that be necessary?

Revisionist history's fusion with fashion sense isn't exactly new, but its popularity seems to be growing. When actress Cameron Diaz showed up in Peru, she thought she had a trendy bag that might garner some jealous stares. People were staring, sure, but for all the wrong reasons.
  • added August 22, 2008
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11 responses // Why Do people love a mass murder like Che?

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    I don't know, it's like wearing a George Bush teashirt.

    kennymotown
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    I don't know, it's like wearing a George Bush teashirt.

    Would you like some crumpets with your "Tea Shirt"

    brad62
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    Wearing a Bush shirt is just as worse

    Chuck_st_chuck
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    Che is pretty. Duh.

    Armageddon_Now
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    I think it's due to the very fact that factions of mainstream culture hasve attached itheir own ideals to his appealing image, leaving out his actual identity and leaving the people who buy merch with his image knowing nothing about him.

    Egnatius212
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    It goes a lot deeper than Che.

    How many people out there wear Grateful Dead tie dyes, but have never listened to "American Dream" even once? Or, how many claim to be hard core Anarchists but have never read a single word by Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, or Hakim Bey?

    It could be argued that one of the functions of the so called "counter" culture is to act as an incubator for radical thoughts that will, eventually, become acceptable, with time, by the mainstream.

    It's only natural that some inconvenient (...or unacceptable) aspects are going to be lost in the translation.

    extblues
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    Who is this cunt?

    If it wasn't bed time i rip his piece to pieces but alas i am tired.
    but some points before I go.

    "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"
    George Washington and Nelson Mandela are terrorists you fucking mook. bet he wouldn't say a word about either of those two, and the both caused deaths.

    "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. "

    He revolutionised one more country than you or i ever have.
    Communism was never actually tried anywhere (bar maybe Israeli kibbutz..)

    "He was killed in Bolivia" Yeah by the fucking CIA backed troops, oh yeah reminds me that the dictator in cuba was of course CIA backed as well..

    This just crap spewed by the same people who call Hugo Chavez a dictator even though they live in a country where a man who didn't win the election became president in 2000

    Most emphatically Buried.

    Owwmykneecap
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    hugo wasn't a dictator just a commie lol

    Chuck_st_chuck
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    Glenn Beck is such a douche bag, he believes only what his government and media told him about Che, the fact is he helped overthrow the US backed puppet government in Cuba and that pissed the USA off, end of story.

    it is so funny how if a man helps overthrow a regime we hate he is a freedom fighter, but is he overthrows one we like, he is a dirty terrorist.

    Both men kill innocents, why is one better?

    rabidlemur
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    none if they kill everyone.
    ONly the true freedome fighters kill soldiers
    Che on the other hand called for the death of anyone who even liked the regime he was up against

    Chuck_st_chuck
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    ahh how can this white, pussy ass bitch call che nothing..fuckin yuppies go die.

    firstnameisdistance

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