my connection with the tea party

[Jester]

Well, no, Che said all those things. Just that it was over 10 years, and not in that one context. I'm sure if you cherry picked and arranged statements from any politician talking about wars or conflict, you could paint them as a monster. But, as I said, I was really just interested in the statement he made about fanning the flames of hatred to rile up the people into a revolutionary fervor. Which was from the conference cited.

While that is no doubt closer to Che's intentions, he didn't say that part either. That's also from the false version. What he said was:

Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

... which is to say that Che sees hatred as a natural reaction to oppression, which must be harnessed in order to harden the people for the revolutionary cause. Which is quite relevantly different from something which must be artificially incited, "fanned" and "riled up"- which is, of course, the view held by Che's opponents, that people are ordinarily content and quiet, without the baneful influence of communist agitators.

That's really what all these false quotes share - wish fulfillment. "If only my worst enemies had said exactly what I imagine them to have said..." I'm more than happy to hang El Che out to dry for what he actually did say - he was ruthless, his methods were ineffective, and his goals dubious. But he, like everyone, deserves to be understood, and not just turned into a cardboard cutout.

-Jester