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Che Guevara: Why Is a Mass-Murdering Racist & Homophobe a Left-Wing Hero?
Here's Che on race: "The ebony is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink."
Che explicitly stated that his vision of socialist utopia did not enclose blacks: "We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution," he said. "By which I mean: nothing."
Or how about this: "The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing."
If you want to cancel George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, what do you do with Che?
The retort is, you give him a pass. As the saying goes from the French Revolution, "there are no enemies to the left."
We see a similar confusion among the LGBTQ crowd. Che's face decorates many a pride poster and rainbow T-shirt, and yet Che was an unapologetic homophobe. He called gay men "perverts." He locked them up in camps and forced them to labor under a sign that read "Work will make you men."
In 2017, HuffPost published an article titled, "Are You Gay?
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An unlikely couple monopolized Chilean headlines about the 16th Festival de Cine de Viña del Mar in 2004: international superstar Mexican actor Gael García Bernal and local Chilean Woman loving woman, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activist Víctor Hugo Robles, who also focuses on HIV/AIDS issues. Despite the pointed contrast in their spheres of guide and stardom status, García Bernal and Robles had something in common. They had both connected the crew of Che Guevara impersonators including, most notably, Omar Sharif, Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Cher and, more recently, Benicio del Toro. (For an extensive list of Che Guevara impersonators spot Trisha Ziff, ed., Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon, Recent York: Abrams Image, 2006.)
García Bernal had come to Chile to promote one of the blockbuster films of the festival, The Motorcycle Diaries by Brazilian director Walter Salles and executive producer Robert Redford. The Viña del Mar MotorcycleDiaries screening at the festival was the official premiere of the clip in Chile. In addition to star García Bernal, Alberto Granado, the actual Argentine-Cuban doctor who accompanied Che around Latin America, flew to Chile. Amids
Today, after 50 years of his death, many people still remember Ernesto “Che” Guevara as a warrior for social justice. For so many celebrities, politicians, and activists, Che Guevara is a kind of Nice Samaritan who fought against oppression and tyranny. It is unfortunate, though, that these people omit some of their idol’s defining traits traits.
Che Guevara was in fact an intolerant and despicable man.
In the process of building a communist society after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 in Cuba, one of the ideas Che Guevara presented and promoted was the notion of the “new man.” This idea grew out of Guevara’s aversion to capitalism, and was first explained in his note on “Man and Socialism in Cuba". He believed that “The individual under socialism (...) is more complete,” and that the state should educate men and women in anti-capitalist, cooperative, selfless, and non-materialistic values.
Anyone who deviated from the “new man” was seen as a ”counter-revolutionary.” Such was the case of gay men —whom Guevara referred to as a “sexual perverts.” Both Guevara and Castro considered homosexuality a bourgeois decadence. In an interview in 1965, Castro define
Today, 50 years after his death, many people still remember Ernesto “Che” Guevara as a warrior for social justice. For so many celebrities, politicians, and activists, Che Guevara is a thoughtful of Good Samaritan who fought against oppression and tyranny. It is unfortunate, though, that these people ignore some of their idol’s defining character traits.
Che Guevara was in fact an intolerant and despicable man.
In the process of building a communist culture after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 in Cuba, one of the ideas Che Guevara presented and promoted was the notion of the “new man.” This concept grew out of Guevara’s aversion to capitalism, and was first explained in his note on “Man and Socialism in Cuba“. He believed that “The individual under socialism (…) is more complete,” and that the state should educate men and women in anti-capitalist, cooperative, selfless and non-materialistic values.
Anyone who deviated from the “new man” was seen as a ”counter-revolutionary.” Such was the case of gay men —whom Guevara referred to as “sexual perverts.” Both Guevara and Castro considered homosexuality a bourgeois decadence. In an interview in 1965, Castro explained