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[Dude Love]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF4mFsZwf-o

-Interesting how the Cuban diaspora uniformly hates him and fat Fidel but pinkos the world over think they know better.

[nukeday]

The Cuban diaspora, but what about the Cuban people?

Oh, I guess they're all brainwashed. Diasporas are always right.


I find it funny that there are more people bring up his name to make fun of t-shirt clad college kids than there are college kids wearing Che tees.

I've never seen someone post up an "I love Che" thread on Dave's, but this is at least the third "Che was a monster and leftists are idiots" thread I've seen.

But have fun fighting your windmills.

Ah, here we are:

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=2563865&highlight=#2563865


You must be very bored. Almost as bored as I was to look that up.

[Dude Love]

A few years ago I met about a dozen Cubans who'd very recently left the country, around the same time Fidel finally got sick and stepped down from power. EVERY SINGLE ONE wanted him to die or didn't care if he did (not a single one supported him). As for the people there being brainwashed, it's possible since the media isn't free. I guess we can't know exactly what they think because they're forbidden from criticizing the gov't and can go to prison for three years just for criticizing Marxism, a few years ago a man even got two years in prison for begging for food in front of a camera.

[northway]

Fidel's a bastard, but I think he's been significantly better than the US backed regime that was there prior to his taking power, particularly for the poor. The Cuban diaspora is so disproportionately descended from Cuba's wealthy that I think you need to take anything coming out of that camp with a grain of salt.

[young_clinton]

[Kuros]

[nukeday]

Everyone who picks up a gun and conquers is a murderer. So what?

Nobody is posting topics about other murderous Cold War-era regimes or persons on a regular basis, be they communist or fascist. Nobody is bringing up Pinochet or Marcos, nor is anyone (on these boards) regularly idolizing Che.

These threads are pointless. It's just some weird fetish that certain conservatives have that they want to bait people into defending Che Guevara.

And as northway pointed out, differentiating between the diaspora's and the natives' opinions is significant. That seems obvious.

[Kuros]

[nukeday]

I'm not a moderator, but it is still boring, and as you mentioned, off off-topic. I steer clear of the wingnuts on the CE forum for a reason.

Anyway, I don't think it's necessary to raise awareness. The Cold War is over.

I still think it's barking at an empty room. Nobody is going to come to the defense of Che Guevara, not even the "pinkos." We're not in high school.

[Dude Love]

"Nobody is posting topics about other murderous Cold War-era regimes or persons on a regular basis, be they communist or fascist. Nobody is bringing up Pinochet or Marcos."
-That's because you don't see idiots wearing their t-shirts and making heroes of them (except for Mao, who killed ten times as many people as Hitler). Luckily I've only seen two Che t-shirts so far this year. I think I told both people Che was a communist who'd killed thousands of people and they seemed not to know (shocker!).

[catman]

Mao t-shirts? I know he is still revered in China but haven't seen any Mao t-shirts in the west.

[Kuros]

There's a bar in Beijing called "A-Che," when I was there they used to sell up the Che Guevera aspect more but they've toned it down some. I find Che idolization truly obnoxious, no matter how few people do it.

[bucheon bum]

[young_clinton]

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