Le Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:13:03 -0300, Thiago Arroadie <yellowdropc...@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.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 > > 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. _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list gnome-themes-list@gnome.org To unsubscribe (and more): http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list