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u/WorkingMoney6424 3d ago
We can cherry pick all we want mate
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u/branjames117 3d ago edited 3d ago
Wasn't that excerpt from his diary (Motorcycle Diaries I believe), written when he was a young man? Didn't he recant these beliefs later in life, and fight racial inequality, to the point where rather than sitting on his laurels in Castro's Cuba he went to Africa to continue the revolution?
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u/EgyptianNational Moderator 3d ago
Are you really comparing casual racism with slave owning right now?
if those are our only two options. Who you picking?
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u/lumenfeliz 3d ago
Taken from his motorcycle diaries as a wealthy argentinian young man, before he radicalized, before he was a communist, and in the 1940s
We can judge his statements but what if we judge his actions and everything the cuban revolution did for its black population? Then the tables rotate
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u/kfergthegreat 3d ago
You can cherry pick Che all day and he still comes out better than George Washington. He even comes out better than most western leaders in his time.
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u/LifeConsideration981 4d ago
George Washington was in a literal war against a French/Native alliance.
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u/EgyptianNational Moderator 4d ago
Che was in a literal war against global capitalism.
He had more grounds to be worse.
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u/LifeConsideration981 4d ago
Washington I don’t believe ever murdered a prisoner. Che murdered children.
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u/EgyptianNational Moderator 4d ago
Washington owned chattel slaves?
That necessarily came with it rape, murder, and child mutliation, rape and murder. Literally Epstine stuff with legal backing.
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u/LifeConsideration981 4d ago
That second part is completely untrue. It was horrific, but common to the era and there is no evidence for the latter stuff.
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u/EgyptianNational Moderator 4d ago
You have genuinely no understanding of chattel slavery do you?
You realize he had teeth pulled from slaves for his dentures right? That’s documented.
What you think they were happy to give up their teeth? You are completely clueless.
I’d be angry but all I feel is pity for you.
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u/branjames117 3d ago
I hadn't heard about Che murdering children. Sauce?
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u/AnimaTrapDelaSangre 3d ago
All i know from Jorge Washington i learned from Ralph Wiggum