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Thoughts on people who wear Che Guevara shirts

Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:19 pm
Posted by SaintCajun
Pacific Northwest
Member since Apr 2012
4294 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:19 pm
It had been a while since I have seen someone wear one but I saw somebody wearing one tonight. I believe you can wear whatever makes you happy but I was just curious. Do they know what the man stood for? Do they wear it for what it symbolizes? Do they wear it because they saw someone else wear it?

For those that aren't aware of what I'm referring to:
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:20 pm to

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Posted by Turkey_Creek_Tiger
Member since Dec 2012
12343 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:20 pm to
Che Guevara was a marxist. I refuse to associate with people who wear that
This post was edited on 1/22/14 at 11:21 pm
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:21 pm to
Probably just as unaware as Guevara himself was.
Posted by ClydeFrog
Kenya
Member since Jul 2012
3261 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:21 pm to
quote:

Do they know what the man stood for?


I'm convinced they do not.
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
72195 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:21 pm to
People wear them because it makes them feel unique.
Posted by Teddy Ruxpin
Member since Oct 2006
39609 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:22 pm to
I walked behind a guy wearing a Che shirt, walking towards a Subway sandwich shop, drinking a Starbucks coffee in Athens, Greece. Got a pic of it. Couldn't miss that.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
27161 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:22 pm to
I figured people who wore them nowadays were wearing them to be ironic and make fun of the people in the 90s that wore them.

Che reminds me of an interesting article I read several years ago.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35528 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:23 pm to
quote:

Do they know what the man stood for? Do they wear it for what it symbolizes? Do they wear it because they saw someone else wear it?


No, no, yes.
Posted by dawgfan24348
Member since Oct 2011
49341 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:23 pm to
It's a whole hipster thing
Posted by Diddles
LA
Member since Apr 2013
6981 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:23 pm to
Counter strike fans
Posted by TexasTiger05
Member since Aug 2007
28326 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:25 pm to
quote:

o they know what the man stood for?
like, equality man


there were these great shirts with that image and "I don't know who this guy is" above it. The Che family ended their production really quick. My husband still regrets not getting one when he saw it.
Posted by Buddy Garrity
Member since Mar 2013
4224 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:26 pm to
Geeds
Posted by Buddy Garrity
Member since Mar 2013
4224 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:29 pm to
i know i should know this, but can someone give me cliffs on him or explain why he's on t shirts?
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98351 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:32 pm to
A physician and Castro's second in command during the Cuban revolution, Fidel sent him to stir up revolution in South America to keep him from being a rival. Assassinated, allegedly by Bolivian police, but it was probably American Green Berets who actually pulled the trigger.

Before he went to Cuba, Che treated lepers in Brazil, and libertarian Murray Rothbard called him a "heroic figure." A complicated figure, and not easily pigeonholed, despite attempts by both the left and right.

He also looked a little bit like the young Michael Corleone

Posted by CroakaBait
Gulf Coast of the Land Mass
Member since Nov 2013
3978 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:41 pm to
Dude was a stone cold killer, I'd rather wear a Jesse Jackson tshirt.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84894 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:44 pm to
I'm pretty liberal and even i wouldn't wear a Che shirt
Posted by uptowntiger84
uptown
Member since Jul 2011
3929 posts
Posted on 1/22/14 at 11:54 pm to
Leave the country
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69377 posts
Posted on 1/23/14 at 12:56 am to
Whoever marketed these shirts is a fricking hypocrite. Oh the irony of marxist, lesbian, gay college communists using money to purchase a dirtbag shirt.
Posted by Jcorye1
Tom Brady = GoAT
Member since Dec 2007
71521 posts
Posted on 1/23/14 at 6:59 am to
I had a LSU shirt that had Mike dressed up like Che.

I thought it was funny.
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