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.ie...@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. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-themes-list mailing list > gnome-themes-list@gnome.org > To unsubscribe (and more): > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list >
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