Well, It Wasn' t Another Che Guevara T-Shirt

I've ranted before about college-aged morons wearing shirts printed with the ugly mugs of Che Guevara and Mao.  This time, it was different.  No Che.  Nope, this time it was an oblivious undergraduate girl wearing a picture of Stalin.  STALIN!  *facepalm*  Little idiot probably had no idea what kind of murderous monster he actually was. Hell, it's like wearing a picture of Hitler.

The Capacity for Self-Delusion and the Divorce from Reality

This is an interesting read, and I can tell you campus leftists haven't a clue about actual history.  Who would dare to wear a Mao t-shirt who actually knew what the man did?  But the oblivious undergrad whom I saw sporting such an outfit on campus recently clearly hadn't the foggiest notion that he was wearing the face of a man responsible for the deaths of tens of millions.  Ditto the airheads with the Che Guevara shirts (I know I've ranted about them before), clueless about the bloody thuggery of their fake hero.  OK, OK, everyone is allowed some youthful idealistic foolishness.  But you gotta grow up sometime.

Protests in Venezuela and Che Guevara Chic

Hmmmmmmm. And this.

Nerd News: Students Protest Che Guevara

FINALLY! A glimmer of hope that at least a few college students understand that Che Guevara was a bloody-minded thug, not a hero. Down with Communist chic! I can't tell you how much I hate those stupid T-shirts.

Check out this awesome report on the "No More Che Day" demonstration at the University of Florida from a few weeks back (yes, I totally missed it -- oops).

Che and Celebrity Communist Chic

Fashion faux pas.

You know how I feel about "Communist chic" and about the stupid celebrity-cult of Che Guevara. Rich celebrities (and whining undergrad poseurs) can't seem to get enough of glamorizing and romanticizing this bloody-minded, murderous thug.

A recent film about Che has been released (see Fausta disassemble it here, with more from Cuba-blogger Babalu). In response, Reason has a very good video about Che and Communist chic. Pay particular attention to the testimony of two people who lived under actual Communism -- Paquito D'Rivera of Cuba and Kai Chen of China. Both managed to escape their Communist hellholes; both are now living in the US.

Watch it here:



I won't even burden your patience by ranting about "Mao chic," a phenomenon of sheer idiocy and historical denial that makes me want to scream.

UPDATE: Awesome!