The Truth About the Truth About Che Guevara

Luca
TheShift
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8 min readJan 29, 2021

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Oftentimes you'll see teenagers wearing T-shirts bequeathed with the image of Che Guevara. Many people wear these shirts due to Che Guevara becoming more of a symbol than a man, not knowing who he truly is, not knowing the legacy they carry by wearing the shirt. I bet that now you expect me to say that actually all of these dumb kids are stupid and evil because Che Guevara was some reprehensible South American Hitler, after all this is the most prevailing opinion about him, second to know literally nothing. Even if it is true that instead of killing himself, Hitler took a permanent vacation to Argentina Che probably would've probably done some pest control, and if they really were similar the conservatives would probably be defending Che, but I digress. Many reactionaries prey on liberal ignorance to spread “the real truth” about Che Guevara's supreme rule of evil, and this “truth” has generally been accepted by the liberal media and politicians. In reality, these people wearing Che’s image for aesthetic reasons should research Che, not to find out how evil he was, but to see what he really did, and what he inspired, so they can take pride in his image.

Walk into a North American college and I swear you will see finance majors with this on their shirt

Many of the lies told about Che Guevara are supported citing either hearsay or evidence from the “historical” tabloid propaganda site funded by the Koch brothers, History Collection, which is completely coincidentally…

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Luca
TheShift
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I write things whenever I feel like there is something I feel I need to write about. Generally political and cultural, sometimes about movies.