But you first took a swipe at CBC leftism in your first post, and it was repeated by the likes of Downey, Joey, Glen, Andrew, Pat, obc and Don – so its disingenuous to now say “it has nothing to do with the CBC’s bias.” Pick an axe and grind it.

The ‘right wing’ responses are to someone who thinks Castro’s an alright guy and outsiders like us have no right to criticize his brutal dictatorship. You’re right, it has nothing to do with the CBC’s bias – there are already several good threads going which elaborate on the CBC’s obvious bias.

GC’s position is pretty far out for most (maybe not you) people. That’s what has generated the responses.

This has nothing to do with bais in reporting or about how the CBC allegedly loves Fidel Castro. It is irrelevant that Castro has imprisoned political opponents ect.

When you see someone with a toothbrush mustache, you call it a “Hitler ‘Stache”. That doesn’t mean that you approve of Adolf Hitler’s political policies; that’s just what it’s called.

Come on, people, have a sense of humour!

A representative from the Shop responded: “[The cap’s name] is a widely used and accepted term for the style of hat and many stores and retailers all over North America sell Castro hats. To call it another style of hat would not describe it properly…. It is in no way meant to glorify communism and murder simply a style of hat. (sic)”

Instead, you give in to a single complaint. Spineless. How can anyone take you people seriously?

Perhaps you could rename the CBC. I find the name offensive. How about it?

Of course I understand that you need to pretend that it doesn’t, because to acknowledge this would screw up your narrow little view of the world. Oddly enough, this is why you don’t like media organizations like CBC, or BBC, because they might challenge how you see the world, and you can’t have that. You need everything in black and white.

Nobody has ever nailed the rightwing mindset better than Stephen Colbert when he moaned about reality having a leftwing bias.

You’ve got to be kidding! Cuba trades with the whole world – Canada, the EU, Russia, China, Venezuela among scores of others, and you claim the American embargo is at fault?!? What nonsense. And as far as their “world-class” medical care is concerned, isn’t it funny that Castro himself had to send for a Spanish doctor when he was deathly ill? I wonder how many other Cubans get to be treated by Spanish doctors when they are seriously sick.

Do you think that this may have as much to do with the embargo as the leadership? The US is terrified of Cuba, because if they lifted the embargo, they just might actually demonstrate that communism could work.

Baloney! Chile’s is much higher – and no one flees that land by boats through shark infested waters to get away.

It looks to me that most of the comments are taking GC to task for his/her CBC induced ignorance, naivety, or love of brutal communist dictators. Where you get politically correct censorship out of this – I don’t know.

But then, maybe you’re drinking the CBC kool-aid too.

The kool-aid cost $1Billion a year that could go to health care or the fight against global warming!

As if CBC invented the term… sheesh. Do a Google search for “castro hat” and you get 30,400 results. You can buy them on eBay and Amazon, branded with logos from the great Communist bastions like Corona beer, Quicksilver, O’neill and Sloppy Joe’s restaurant.

Now search “ranger cap” and you get 811 results. Not only does nobody know what a “ranger cap” is, but they get confused with the Smokey the Bear “ranger hat”.

Still, it’s pretty sweet to find an issue where the angry conservative crowd can lobby FOR political correctness and censorship!

When Nazi-style hats become fashionable next season will the CBC need to find some euphemism to use in place of Hitler hats? Grow up CBC, you shouldn’t be caving to whiny little punks making a stink about what you call some piece of disposable fashion you sell on your site.

The complaint is silly, of course . . . political correctness run amok, and a torrent of people who can’t distinguish the iconicity of Castro (a fact) from idolization of Catro (a dubious interpretation). Ironically enough, the process of merchandizing such iconic items (the cap, or the Che Gueverra t-shirt) so dilutes the meaning and dissolves the real historicity of the personality involved that the debate (Castro – hero or criminal?) disappears. Capitalism (wearing it’s hip-youth marketing mask) wins the game.