NEWS: Target's Che Shame

CULTURE: Target's Che Shame

After being slammed by business columnists for selling Che Guevara CD cases, Target has removed the CD cases from their shelves.

Other items pulled from Target's racks included a controversial line of t-shirts.

A huge corporation like Target selling something with the image of a Marxist revolutionary has to be the most ironic thing ever. It is overloading my brain's irony center.

this reminds me of a story i read years ago. i think it was nike that poured a bunch of money into developing a new sports shoe that they were going to name 'the incubus.' apparently, someone finally looked the word up in a dictionary and decided they didn't need to market a shoe named after a demonic rapist.

I, for one, am glad Target finally dumped all things Che. Tyrant bastard!

Che -- for when mommy's little self-stylized rebel outgrows Emo

While I think Guevara has been idealized beyond reason and made into some sort of romantic, iconic figure for the rebels, I fail to see how he qualifies as a tyrant??

No disrespect, I'm being honest, because considering he never ruled in any country as others did...

just bastard, then?

well if you must

Screw this.

Where can I get one of those "hug a vegetarian t-shirts?"

American rebels?

yeah uh huh.

+1

Che was born wealthy. That he could reject a life of luxury for the live of a guerilla revolutionary is something easily admired, especially in this day and age: he was a believer.

The man also unhesitatingly murdered people who wouldn't do such an about-face. If every person who wore his face were to realize what he would have wanted done to them, he'd be a more accurate symbol.

I read it as a command, and something about that man just makes me want to obey!

I just think the best thing that ever happened in the last 50 years was that Castro and his Revolution took control of Cuba, closed the Casino's and sent them to America. Cuba has remained a sovereign country and for the first time in its history - a process that has taken 16 years - Cuba has reinvented itself as a totally independent country. In a few years Cuba will be self sustained. Che in fewer than 10 years did more for the poor of our planet than any other politico in our time -- When the final pages are written about Fidel, just like Che - The myth will live on for decades and the wrongs will be totally ignored. There is nothing the extreme right-wing and conservatives can do about that - but Hate... And I brought a CD case before it was pulled... Keep the Revolution Moving Forward...

Though Osama bin laden is a trucker.

still want the shirt

"Che in fewer than 10 years did more for the poor of our planet than any other politico in our time "


Yeah, most politicians are fucking retarded. Che Guevara didn't do shit tho. Neither did Fidel. Unless you count famine as helping the poor...

Every "Marxist Revolutionary" has not had a keen enough grasp on reality to see that the big picture doesn't work in the way Marx thought it did. If you want to improve the general living standard, i.e. make it better for poor people, you choose the path which promotes infrastructure development and technological advancement.

That path is a free society where Businesses are allowed to prosper and expand. As wealth increases, common goods become more plentiful as the demand increases. This is a cycle.

If you disagree, look at the United States. Reasonably free economy and the current conditions of the average Lower class family are better then the average conditions of the average middle class family 50 years ago.

Why? Technological Advancement. These technologies were developed in free countries with free market economies, for the most part.

(image by dolk lundgren)

thank you jdpatriot for citing reality instead of ignoring it in favor of 200 year old dreams. marxism/socialism/communism killed 150 million people in the 20th century but people seem to overlook that in their endless struggle for "the big dream" or "cosmic justice".

the real cuba

im not sure about the che CD. ... but target is selling some exquisite sushi dish sets lately. im a consumer marxist commy bastard.

Who are these people? The fight against communism is over, guys. We won. Maybe Che wasn't a saint and maybe Cuba is fucked up, but how many latin American butchers have we bankrolled over the years without peep from the American people? That was a rhetorical question. I just think it's a little anachronistic that we keep the embargo going and consider the image of Che Guevara to be reolutionary.

If anything, I'm glad the cd case was removed because I hate to think of some asshole CEO getting rich off of the image of a marxist idealist.

But yeah, we've supported as bad if not worse than Castro, and we won the fight against global communism. So what purpose does the embargo serve again? Other than keeping me from getting good cigars and cuban babies from getting vaccines, that is.

the best way to fight communism is to capitalize its champions. irony is the new entropy.

Nice turn of a phrase, Mr. Crisp.