Yes, it's offensive
Posted by stephen on 01-27-2008 in Is the Che Guevara Pig offensive?Hitler has appeared in the Simpsons as well... Appearances of Guevara, Hitler, Stalin, etc. are funny when it's in a show like the Simpsons or Family Guy, but they are not fit for a site like this.
Che Guevara was a communist and mass murderer. I can handle it if just a handful of people have the Guevara avatar, but when it's used as the default avatar, it gives me the impression that Che Guevara is the mascot of Outquib, and that doesn't sit well with me. As a firm believer in democracy, capitalism, and human life, it is insulting to me.
Guevara ordered hundreds, and maybe thousands, of men to be killed without any kind of trial or due process of law. Ironically, the same fate happened to him in the end, but that does not erase any of the murders he was responsible for, and it certainly doesn't make him a hero.
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." -Che Guevara
In response to: broken dreams
how can the pig be offensive? i think it's hilarious! afterall, che has even appeared in the simpsons....VIVA el Duff! what's sad is to think that che is a hero to so many... i looked up to him too.. then you hear stories from the old cuban immigrants and they tell you how unfair he was and the atrocities committed... and here i am.. a rebel without a clue and a lost speck of dust floating in a vacuum of heroes.. who do we look up to when they're all buried underground?