[quote=leviathon435;120508]Plenty. I've named four in a previous post who also happen to be from Argentina. And there are many others among their countrymen.

Can you buy a T-shirt with their faces on? not so much. But then that's what you or anyone else means when they say his 'memory and ideals will live forever'. At least I hope not.

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"Yes. That's correct. Making a statement that's 100% true can't be bigoted."

That's optimistic.

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I would tend to agree with Joe's assessment. I mean here in the states you have a bunch of emo teenagers running around with their Che shirts on thinking they are making some kick *** statment without ever understanding what he did. Let alone why he did it. Hell most of those kids do not even know where he came from haha.

[quote=mono tejano;120516]No of course not, but (and I'm not comparing Che to Jesus here, well ok I am) if I said Jesus is dead: get over it my comment would rightly be attacked as it ignores the point completely. Jesus's memory and ideas will live forever and so will Che's, an idea is more than the man/woman behind it.

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The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

[quote=leviathon435;120520]You have a fair point but I think your analogy goes a bit too far, I mean Che never claimed he would return to save all our souls. Though it would be pretty cool if he did. And I'm sure he'd love to see all the T-shirts, kinda like I'm sure Jesus would love to see people wearing crosses.

My main point, as you may have noticed (and I'm sure Joe did) is with the wording of the OP. Che's hometown is honoring him. Great. But the nation of Argentina isn't. And there are other people who share his nationality who are equally or more important figures within Argentina. Those are the two things I took issue with. I know it may sound pedantic, but that's just how I was feeling at the time.

I admire Che too, just not as much as you two guys do. And if there is a second coming I'm headin for the hills!

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His Guerrilla Warfare was an amazing book.

Long live Ernesto "Che" Guevara...

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Lol, yeah it's a fair point.

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The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

Most of these kids probably couldn't even find Argentina on a map!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Please! Most of them probably couldn't even find the UNITED STATES on a map!

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"Yes. That's correct. Making a statement that's 100% true can't be bigoted."

True.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."