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Related: About this forumChe the racist. Che the authoritarian. Che the psychopathic murderer.
"We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing." -- Che Guevara, 1959.
"The n***o is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent" -- Che Guevara
"Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates" -- Che Guevara, 1961
"Hatred is the central element of our struggle! Hatred that is intransigent...hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and cold- blooded killing machine...We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable. To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow! The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we'll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!" -- Che Guevara, 1966
But those iconic t-shirts are still all the rage...
delisen
(6,044 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Some of them are from the Motorcycle Diaries.
"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.
"The episode upset us a little because the poor man, apart from being homosexual and a first-rate bore, had been very nice to us, giving us 10 soles each, bringing our total to 479 for me and 163 1/2 to Alberto."
"The first person we hit on was the mayor, someone called Cohen; we had heard a lot about him, that he was Jewish as far as money was concerned but a good sort."
"Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians"
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I will re-look to spot those quotes, cause I don't remember ANY of the quotes you mention!
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)T where they are selling it?
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Or, try Amazon.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I am looking at "The Bolivian Diary"..is that the one?
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Got it..
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)Straight from the Heritage Foundation
Oh, and this:
http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/apr/17/marco-rubio/did-che-guevara-write-extensively-about-superiorit/
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)...but attempts to explain away Che's racist worldview as "youthful indiscretions"?
How does the author attempt to explain away the FACT that Che was a bloodthirsty murderer, who killed innocent men (including the mentally ill), women and children for the glory of the Revolution?
Who is Mike Gonzalez?
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)The Heritage Foundation guy who originally pulled out these quotes to try to smear Che in particular and leftists in general as racist. The guy who Marco Rubio relied on on attacking JZ and Beyonce for going to Cuba. And, whether you knew it or not, YOUR SOURCE.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Another source
Castañeda, Jorge G (1998). Che Guevara: Compañero. pp. 143-144 New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-75940-9.
to "defend the revolution was to execute its enemies, he (Che) would not be swayed by humanitarian or political arguments"
Che the Benevolent Humanitarian...
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)Includes reams of factual information showing that Che was far from racist, far too much to include without violating site rule, let me just repeat the two words Politifact had for the right wing argument you repeated"
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)The quotes are accurate, and that is not in dispute. Most of them come from his own book.
But that doesn't prevent the apologists from defending the scumbag. Even your source acknowledges he was a sadistic murderer.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Here is a link to the Amazon movie
https://www.amazon.com/The-Motorcycle-Diaries-English-Subtitled/dp/B005KGPHZC
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)The link is to that communist paper The Washington Post!
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/09/do-not-shoot-the-last-moments-of-communist-revolutionary-che-guevara/?utm_term=.acf493e3cace
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Act III, Scene II of Hamlet
I have never seen the movie, The Motorcycle Diaries. I imagine that it gave a lovely portrayal of Che as a great humanitarian.
The quotes I gave from above were from his book. HE WROTE THE WORDS. HIS WORDS.
So flame away, if it makes you feel better.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)protesting, and thou doth too much!
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)... is that offering proof to people who would refuse to believe anyway it is a waste of time.
I have offered the sources of my information. They are factual. I refuse to get into a poop-fling about whether "this source" or "that source" is reputable. The fact remains that the vast majority of Che's worldviews (racist, homophobic, anti-Semetic) are well documented. His apologists exist to diminish or excuse his worldview in order to canonize him as Saint Che.
And the fact remains that he was a psychopath who relished murdering those who he thought stood in the way of his Revolution. No charges. No trial. Just ¡El Paredón! Peasants. Teachers. Women. Children. The mentally ill.
Care to spin that?
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)It is translated as I am an American (that's what we call us USA citizens) and only know one language
Joke (not)
What do you call someone who knows 3 languages? Trilingal
What do you call someone who knows 2 languages? Bilingal
What do you call someone who knows 1 language? American (that's what we call us USA citizens)
And to think I laughed at that joke when I was 7 years old! Shame!
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)BOTH have been demonized...I am going to listen to Motorcycle Diaries and will get back to you.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)making the corrupt folks rich and subjugating the populace to starvation?
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Decide for yourself...
Heritage does NOT appear for that quotr...just some racist crap!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)according to this, the Castilian Spanish man, respected and revered the European intelligence and organizational skills while he sounds, in these quote at least, as eurocentric as any Caucasian in regards to the African. Sad.
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)They've been foaming at the mouth trying to destroy his reputation, just as a gusano a-hole from Miami was there to help trap him in Bolivia.
How many right-wing Miami fascists are loved and revered all over the world? Let's see, Orlando Bosch, or Luis Posada Carriles, who were some of the worst terrorists in the world? Orlando Bosch was temporarily banned from entering the US by US Acting Attorney General Whitley, who called him a monstrous terrorist, until George H. W. Bush, Jeb Bush, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen working together finally got him admitted back into the states, anyway, DESPITE what the law said.
Mass murdering a plane full of people from Cuba and elsewhere in mid-flight on an Cubana airliner, Bosh and Carriles were safely tucked away in the US with their alibis after they had their henchmen plant the bomb in a bathroom on the plane and escape before the plane left Venezuela.
Some of those passengers blown to bits and retrieved in pieces from the ocean were Cuban youth athletes from Cuba's fencing team, returning from a meet where they had won some medals, some of them only young teenagers.
Right-wing stinking Cuban fascist terrorists.
Turned Miami into what the FBI labeled "America's Terror Capital" several years ago, with their continuous bombing of people they suspected of being pro-Cuba, or pro-Cuban dialigue, or simply other Miami a-holes they hated. They loved to bomb people's cars, like a beloved Miami radio host who supported establishing relations with Cuba, blew his legs totally off for his efforts.
Nothing is too small, dirty, evil for the cowardly bomb meisters from Miami who are always safely hidden when the bombs go off.
Your quotes are hilarious.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)What is hilarious is the efforts put forth by the political extremists to excuse Che's murderous behavior and hate filled mentality.