On Moral Superiority

Re:On Moral Superiority by jargon on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @12:50PM (#1571791)

I was reading a book about Roads that talks about roads from brazil to the pacific. The author mentions a story about seeing a teen in South America, Venezuela iirc, wearing a t-shirt with bin laden's picture on it and the author asked the kid why he is wearing the shirt.

The teen says, "Because he is a defender of the world's poor."

Is this how people in South America see the war? Rich people killing poor people? Is Bin Laden really revered down there like this? I'm not trying to take sides, just curious about it because I can't even imagine someone wearing a bin laden t-shirt here.

Is bin Laden the new Che in South America?

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Re:On Moral Superiority by rbanffy on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @01:41PM (#1571973)

> Is this how people in South America see the war? Rich people killing poor people? > Is bin Laden the new Che in South America?

No way. And, BTW, only angry teens wear Che t-shirts these days.

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Re:On Moral Superiority by kragen on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @03:48PM (#1572493)

In Buenos Aires, most people don't wear T-shirts, but Che is a pretty popular image. He's right up there with Homer Simpson and Bob Marley.

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Re:On Moral Superiority by forinti on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @01:11PM (#1571872)

Not at all. That was someone being silly.

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