Cuban Generation Y Blogger Mocks Che T-shirt Wearers

NewsBusters ^ | August 25, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Attention all you folks who think of yourselves as counterculture types who demonstrate your rebelliousness by wearing Che Guevara T-shirts. The author of the most popular blog from Cuba, Yoani Sanchez who not only talks the talk but walks the walk, thinks you are absurd. The Generation Y blogger was the subject of a Miami Herald story on Saturday. We will get to her marvelous quote on the subject of Che T-shirts below the fold but first some fascinating information on the person who provides an inside look at what is really happening in Cuba which is often missed by news agencies on that island:

Yoani Sánchez, the blogger who has gained an international following detailing the absurdities of daily life in Cuba, is on the phone from her 14th-floor apartment in Havana, where the elevators rarely work. She speaks plainly, boldly, with none of the hemming and hawing common among folks on the island who fear their phones are tapped.

Sánchez is certain hers is. She is constantly followed, too. None of this stops her from finding ways, despite government attempts to block her, of continuing to post to Generación Y, the blog she launched in April 2007 and for which she has won several awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.

[PJ-Comix]

Read the whole article for the fantastic money quote on the subject of people who wear (and don't wear) Che Guevara T-shirts.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[envisio]

[albie]

I’ve never witnessed anyone yet wearing a “Che” shirt. I’m sure they’re out there. Lucky, I guess.

[AreaMan]

A Che-shirt is the intellectual/political equivalent of a tramp-stamp.

It says one of two things about a person, they are either ignorant or evil.

Just my .02

[DieHard the Hunter]

PING

[Buddygirl]

What goes around, comes around. I feel like I am living in the 60’s again with all the emphasis on the avant garde stuff!

[This Just In]

It’s a good thing she’s receiving so much publicity around the world. If not, she’s be dead by now, or in some box they call a prison in Cuba.

[AreaMan]

It’s a good thing she’s receiving so much publicity around the world. If not, she’s be dead by now, or in some box they call a prison in Cuba.

In Cuba you may be out of jail but you are still in prison.

[PGR88]

I’ve never witnessed anyone yet wearing a “Che” shirt. I’m sure they’re out there. Lucky, I guess.

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Guess you have never been to Manhattan or Berkeley. Count it as a blessing!! In those places, Che T-shirts are nearly as numerous as Obama T-shirts.

[PJ-Comix]

Guess you have never been to Manhattan or Berkeley.

Or Martha's Vineyard.

[KarlInOhio]

I'm looking for a Che t-shirt. I want the one where his worthless carcass is surrounded by members of the Bolivian army.

[Michael.SF.]

I’ve never witnessed anyone yet wearing a “Che” shirt.

Dollars to donuts says there are at least five of those shirts in this line:

UC Berkeley

[joe fonebone]

go to che-mart.com for some great anti che t shirts

[Jewbacca]

I wear one that has Che and the word "Muerto" stamped across his face.

[OCCASparky]

Visit any public college campus.

[This Just In]

You should either rent or by the DVD, Indoctrinate U.

During one of the segments, while the filmmaker is at a university, and trying to find a Men’s Studies (after all, one of the liberals mantras is “equal rights”) department, he visits a Women’s Studies department. Posted on the admin. door is a Communist rant and Che’s image. Says it all.

[AreaMan]

good one.

[goodnesswins]

Hmmmm....I’d LOVE some stickers of that!

[Steve Van Doorn]

I have tried talking to one of these people. He associated Che with ‘revolution’ and he was a hard core leftist. in other words ignorant.