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Today, most Cuban ex-pats around the world are celebrating his death. Liberal Arts students across the Western World are saddened. To me that's funny.

formula1 10y ago
Some one mentioned on twitter how ironic Fidel castro died on black friday. His death has multiple dimensions of irony!
quonn 10y ago
The ex-pats are almost by definition opposed to the regime. No surprises here. Meanwhile, the liberal arts students may have learned to compare Cuba to other and similar countries and draw their conclusions. I have referred to the HDI in a different post where Cuba ranks 40. I have also traveled extensively throughout Latin America and lived there for some time. So I can make some comparisons as well.
rospaya 10y ago
To me it's equally funny how it's ok to group one side into wimpy liberal arts students (you forgot their MacBooks and lattes!) and the others into ex-pats. These days it's like superhuman to be able to look at an issue from two sides.
- edblarney 10y ago
  I didn't say wimpy :) And my comment is not trolling. I was seeing all the news of Cubans around the world celebrating, and then reading some comments here, in the Guardian, in the Globe and Mail - and noting the differences. It's shocking to see so many people support someone who was almost so cruel. 'Please help us, this man we escaped is a totalitarian' 'Oh, you just don't understand your experience, we agree with this ideology and anti-Americanism, so whatever happened to you - it couldn't have been that bad, let's not judge him'. It's one of those things that really tells us a lot about people.
dang 10y ago
On HN, comments about provocative things need to be more substantive, not less. Posting like this amounts to trolling. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042460 and marked it off-topic.

formula1 10y ago

Some one mentioned on twitter how ironic Fidel castro died on black friday. His death has multiple dimensions of irony!

quonn 10y ago

The ex-pats are almost by definition opposed to the regime. No surprises here. Meanwhile, the liberal arts students may have learned to compare Cuba to other and similar countries and draw their conclusions. I have referred to the HDI in a different post where Cuba ranks 40. I have also traveled extensively throughout Latin America and lived there for some time. So I can make some comparisons as well.

rospaya 10y ago

To me it's equally funny how it's ok to group one side into wimpy liberal arts students (you forgot their MacBooks and lattes!) and the others into ex-pats. These days it's like superhuman to be able to look at an issue from two sides.

edblarney 10y ago
I didn't say wimpy :) And my comment is not trolling. I was seeing all the news of Cubans around the world celebrating, and then reading some comments here, in the Guardian, in the Globe and Mail - and noting the differences. It's shocking to see so many people support someone who was almost so cruel. 'Please help us, this man we escaped is a totalitarian' 'Oh, you just don't understand your experience, we agree with this ideology and anti-Americanism, so whatever happened to you - it couldn't have been that bad, let's not judge him'. It's one of those things that really tells us a lot about people.

dang 10y ago

On HN, comments about provocative things need to be more substantive, not less. Posting like this amounts to trolling. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042460 and marked it off-topic.