Anyone know why he's so popular as an icon?
There was a biographical movie about him released in 2004.
Years ago I dated this chick who was pretty lefty (member of NOW, former Wiccan, etc).
Anyway she had a Che t-shirt and I asked her why ... her response "He's just so dreamy!"
Ouch I'm soo sorry... but I can't say much. My roommate is like that. I think she's a member of NOW. She belongs to environmental groups, and wants Hiliary Clinton as president, and her reasons for her beliefs are just like the chick you dated... (umm I think I need to rethink my living situation )
Che was a muderous thug.
Among his accomplishments was the setting up of the Cuban gulag-equivalent, in addition to his personal participation in, and ordering the murder of, countless Cubans who held views out of step with Castro & Che.
Fawning biographies and movies don't do their shades justice.
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WA wrote:
To a certain extent, his revolutionary rhetoric reminds me of the Patriot rhetoric I see on "that other Board"
Well, now that's pretty clever. WA gets in the "Patriot=Che" dig while using the wiggle-syntax of "To a certain extent," and "*rhetoric."
WA thus preserves the options of:
a. Backpeddaling
OR (preferably)
b. An indignant defense/offense that includes waving the "To a certan extent" flag combined with a "don't read anything into my post" parry to be followed up with a thrust consisting of one of Che's quotes.
I think this ought to fit the bill for the quote:
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
...or maybe...
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Just gotta appreciate a fellow who can simultaneously compare someone(s) with a marxist mass-murderer while leaving a handy escape hatch (if called on it) as well as the option of a riposte...all in a single sentence!
JFatrocitywrappedinprettywordsisstillatrocityRuser
Ouch I'm soo sorry... but I can't say much. My roommate is like that. I think she's a member of NOW. She belongs to environmental groups, and wants Hiliary Clinton as president, and her reasons for her beliefs are just like the chick you dated... (umm I think I need to rethink my living situation
)
As I get older I'm much less tolerant of people with what I believe are ideals built on stupid ideas and I find my life is better when I don't allow myself to be surrounded by liberals ... on the other hand, liberal chicks (especially extremely liberal chicks) are good for one thing
Just gotta appreciate a fellow who can simultaneously compare someone(s) with a marxist mass-murderer while leaving a handy escape hatch (if called on it) as well as the option of a riposte...all in a single sentence!
Thats what a college degree does fer ya......makes yer arguments unassailable....
WildchechecheAlaska