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The Left loves Che Guevara. He was a terrible, murderous tyrant. He was also incredibly racist and homophobic. Which speaks volumes about how the Left really feels about minorities and the gay community.

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Yet many Leftists love to wear t-shirts with his face on it, thinking they’re some brave revolutionary. They’re not. They support a genocidal, bigoted thug.

Jacobin Magazine is having a moment, mourning the fact Guevara was executed 57 years ago today.

They didn’t even write an article. Just a fawning post.

Here’s a recap of how horrible Guevara was towards the gay community:

In the process of building a communist society after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 in Cuba, one of the ideas Che Guevara presented and promoted was the notion of the “new man.” This concept grew out of Guevara’s aversion to capitalism, and was first explained in his note on “Man and Socialism in Cuba“. He believed that “The individual under socialism (…) is more complete,” and that the state should educate men and women in anti-capitalist, cooperative, selfless and non-materialistic values.

Anyone who deviated from the “new man” was seen as a ”counter-revolutionary.” Such was the case of gay men —whom Guevara referred to as “sexual perverts.” Both Guevara and Castro considered homosexuality a bourgeois decadence. In an interview in 1965, Castro explained that “A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant communist should be.”

Che Guevara also helped establish the first Cuban concentration camp in Guanahacabibes in 1960. This camp was the first of many. From the Nazis, the Cuban government also adapted the motto at Auschwitz, “Work sets you free,” changing it to “Work will make you men.” According to Álvaro Vargas Llosa, homosexuals, Jehova’s Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and others who were believed to have committed a crime against revolutionary morals, were forced to work in these camps to correct their “anti-social behavior.” Many of them died; others were tortured or raped.

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And here’s a synopsis of his racism:

Guevara also espoused racist views. In his diary, he referred to black people as “those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing.” He also thought white Europeans were superior to people of African descent, and described Mexicans as “a band of illiterate Indians.”

Why does the Left lionize a man who — by his own words and actions — is in direct opposition to everything they claim to support?

Kinda throws that whole ‘life of a single human being’ thing out the window, right?

But he did, so he really didn’t believe that.

He is a good communist now.

And Jacobin Magazine is sad Guevara’s dead.

What a stand up guy.

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Pop a bottle of champagne. The world became a better place when Guevara assumed room temperature.

And yet Jacobin won’t be embarrassed by this at all.

Amen.