Thursday, April 21, 2005

Some Questions

Would you wear a Charlie Manson tee-shirt to the Tate Family reunion?

Would you wear a Adolf Hitler shirt in a synagague?

Keith Urbahn of the Yale Daily News thinks that communist-chic attire (the Che shirt, etc.) is defintely not cool (HT to Mark Urbin):

Marxism was a dark -- perhaps the darkest -- chapter in human history. Those who still admire the ideology are sullied by the black stain of 85 million deaths. Those who -- ignorant of the story behind their beloved leftist icons -- sport Che or vintage Communist Party shirts are likewise tainted by tacit approval of unprecedented crimes against humanity.

Displaying a swastika or a poster of the KKK's Grand Dragon on a dorm wall is considered unacceptable by the standards of modern society, yet somehow, symbols identified with communist mass murder pass the test of political correctness -- they're even "cute" or "kitschy." But "radical chic" isn't "cool"; it's a disgraceful endorsement of humanity's most appalling atrocities.

And we still have May Day coming up soon. Anyone in favor of candlelight vigil to remember the victims of Communism?
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