Re: Very sad: a serial killer in art.gnome
- From: Robert Courthaliac <courthaliac robert orange fr>
- To: gnome-themes-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Very sad: a serial killer in art.gnome
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:02:04 +0200
Le Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:13:03 -0300,
Thiago Arroadie <yellowdropcase gmail com> a écrit :
> Dear Antonius,
>
> I was really reluctant to answer you, but in the end, here we go.
>
> First of all, I think your comment totally misplaced...
> The create an analogy between Adolf Hitler and Ernesto Guevara is
> really going too far.
>
> I actually don't give a shit to the image (even that is pretty well
> made) but if someone wanted to share the ideology of the Cuban (and
> latin-american) revolution, a thing that I don't expect you to
> understand, I don't see a good reason for not doing it.
>
> Otherwise then the way you put it, and knowing that you certainly
> comes from a country that already wen't to a war, the history is and
> has always been told by those who won the wars. I don't expect you to
> call your president or war heroes "serial killers", "monsters" or
> "murderers". In fact, we give them glory and eternity, over the blood
> they trow and lives they took.
>
> A revolution is not made by raising flowers, unfortunately. And the
> image of Guevara is and will always be, the icon of the day the weak
> fought the strong and won. Won the right to chose their own destiny.
> What you call "socialism totalitarianism" (which is itself a really
> weird expression) were once called "free world" even that today this
> old dream is decaying.
>
> I really think you, one day, will be able to think from out of the
> box and see that the world where you live is bigger and has more
> people and cultures that you can imagine, so, respect them.
>
> Sorry for the weird English, I come from a weird Latin world.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Thiago
>
> 2010/5/26 Antonius Iesus <antonius iesus gmail com>
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > First of all let me congratulate to all of you who make possible
> > this great project, Gnome.
> >
> > I'm just a user and I would never have thought of finding myself
> > writing to the gnome community, but sadly I have found myself
> > morally forced to do so.
> >
> > A few minutes ago I was changing the background of my desktop and
> > clicked on the link to the backgrounds page in art.gnome site. Then,
> > in page #6 I find a picture titled "Hasta siempre" (forever!) of
> > Ernesto "Che" Guevara, one of worst sadistic serial killers known in
> > the whole history of mankind and turned into one of the biggest
> > icons of socialist totalitarianism.
> >
> > Let me tell you that watching "that thing" have made me feel very
> > sad, as I believed and still believe that Gnome is not the place
> > for that kind of stuff, the same way that Gnome is not the place
> > for showing pictures of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Fidel
> > Castro or any kind of monsters like these ones, and the same way
> > Gnome is not the place for finding any type of apology of criminal
> > ideologies.
> >
> > I'm sorry I'm writing to all of you but first, I have not found any
> > e-mail address of administrators of gnome, an second, Gnome is a
> > community and as member of this community (as user and occasional
> > bug reporter) I think I have the right to share this thoughts with
> > all of you.
> >
> > Please, you know the whole world is driving madder and madder in
> > these chaotic times of crisis, but I believe it is not so difficult
> > to just have a little of dignity, common sense and decency. In my
> > opinion that image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the like should not
> > be part of this great project, Gnome. I'm not asking for any kind
> > of censorship or political correctness, but just a sense of
> > morality and respect in the things we do.
> >
> > The links:
> >
> >
> > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/art.gnome.org/backgrounds/OTHER-HastaSiempre_1024x768.jpg
> >
> > http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/?page=6
> >
> > It has not been my intention to offend anyone.
> >
> > Thanks for your time and kind regards.
> >
> > God bless you.
> > Antonius Iesus.
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> >
Je ne comprends pas pourquoi je reçois ces emails.
il doit y avoir erreur sur la personne.
Je ne suis en aucun cas l'auteur des thèmes Che guevara.
I am french.
i don't understand why i received these mails.
I am not the autor of theses themes.
I am sorry, i don't speak english very well.
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