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In this episode of Everything Should Be Better, Tristin Hopper argues you should probably put away your old Che Guevara T-shirts for good. Watch the video above, or read the transcript below.

As you know, in recent years it’s become quite improper to parade this around in polite company. And for good reason; this is the battle flag of a country that enshrined human bondage in its constitution, and then got six hundred thousand people killed in a war to defend said constitution. And then, more recently it became the emblem of white nationalists opposed to legal equality for black Americans. So yeah; sorry Confederate flag, but two strikes and you’re out.

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But what if I told you about another beloved pop culture symbol that celebrates tyranny and oppression, but somehow nobody cares about? That’s right: This one. T-shirts featuring a photo of Che Freaking Guevara. Now, I’m not going to deny that Guevara doesn’t look great in a beret and Thriller jacket. All I take issue with is his sociopathic love of mass murder. What’s that, you forgot that a violent revolutionary might have an unhealthy relationship with murder? Well, buckle up, hipsters. There’s no other way to put this: Che Guevara really liked killing people. To the point where his diary contained exhortations to his love of smelling the “blood of the enemy.”