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November 16, 2005
Romper Room Radicals
The New York Observer reports on a tasteless new fad among some of the city's phonier denizens: turning toddlers into billboards to advertise "radical chic" poses.
A favorite item is the classic Che Guevara t-shirt. Only an ignorance of history can explain the absence of corresponding Felix Dzerzhinsky, Heinrich Himmler, and Lavrenty Beria t-shirts. After all, all four played the same roll — i.e., a ruthless dictator's chief executioner.
Appaman.com supplies may of the tiny Che shirts, which are favored by moonbat mommies like Jennifer Connelly and Kate Hudson. Its founder Harald Husum claims he has sold nearly 6,000 Che products, despite complaints from people who actually know something about Guevara — namely, Cuban-Americans.
"I don't think many of our customers are Communists," says Husum. "This is not at all a political statement, it's a fashion statement."
Why does that not make me despise them any less?
"Some people probably think it's an icon of what's cool," says writer Francesca Castagnoli, whose 2-year-old advertises for the brutal totalitarian Guevara. She adds, reportedly without irony, "Also, you sort of want that independent spirit for your child."
One seller of radical chic baby wear considered Mao shirts. Even some NYC trendoids may be aware that Mao is the communist dictator best known for spilling more of his own people's blood than any other tyrant in history. He ran up a body count that may have been higher than Stalin's, Hitler's, and Pol Pot's combined. How cuddly.
Also considered "cutting edge" in baby clothes: shirts insulting President Bush, featuring clever liberal slogans such as "President Poopyhead" and "Bush Is a Tush." Jon Stewart, who has unfortunately reproduced, dresses his baby in a shirt that reads "I Already Know More Than the President."
If their intellectual development is normal, the tots will outgrow the ideology around the same time they outgrow the clothes.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 16, 2005 1:20 PM
Comments
Can you imagine the Pol Pot baby-tshirt? On the front is his picture. On the back it reads 'So I killed a couple million? Big deal.'
Posted by: Anna at November 16, 2005 3:38 PM
As Uncle Joe said: "one death is a tragedy,a million a statistic."
Posted by: Doug at November 17, 2005 2:46 PM
I named my son Che.
In a revolution, some people need to die, it's just like war.
Che was a revolutionary guerilla fighter, yes he killed people, but he killed people so that the poor and oppressed Indigenas who had been killed for hundreds of years without any complaints from gutter snipes like this stupid website.
What went around came back around, and will again.
Posted by: che vive at November 18, 2005 9:44 AM
