Quote - > Quote - I believe Karen was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with the "dirigible-boobed" comment.

I know she was being tongue-in-cheek, I didn't need the translation. I'm neither humour nor sarcasm impaired, Morrigan. I wanted to hear from her wether the fact that Che is popular chic as opposed to Nazi imagery being verbotten would have an effect: I can see large [and small] boobed young women wearing Che Guevara shirts in any major city or campus, none of whom would ever stick a swastika on their chest. Is one man's mass murderer another man's mass murderer - or does popular chic make a difference? Howzabout a Hammer and Sickle t-shirt? Or a Pol Pot flag? Or a Janet Reno banner?

It's gonna be a couple days before you hear from her, as Karen is doing the Christmas thing with her family.  Once in a while, we loosen the chains on 'er ;)  Above that, you can always contact the admin ( admin@renderosity.com )

As for Che.....well, I can almost guarantee that 4 out of 5 people wearing a print of the photo of che on their shirts have not a clue who he was or what he stood for.  I could go off on a rant about how, less than 10 years ago, it was so very easy for me to find a group of kids in the 15-18 yr age range who could hold an intelligent conversation regarding politics and they'd actually know what they were talking about....and, now, I can barely find 3 adults (offline) with which to have a conversation that doesn't revolve around reality t.v.  But, well, I don't think there's enough space on the servers grin.  It's easy to try to use him as an example for a subject like this.  On the one hand, he was an intelligent revolutionary.  He was also a calculating soldier;  killer if you will.  Can you celebrate one aspect, while ignoring the other?  Some can, and do.  Some can't separate the two.  However, that's not the point, I just went off on a tangent.

The context of the image, as well as the content of the description, is really what we look at, not whether or not the image has someone who was violent in it.  For instance...in the Photography gallery, there are many human portraits.  We can't possibly know how many of the subjects, or even artists, of the photos are rapists, child molesters, wife beaters, muggers, thieves, etc.  But, we don't ask that in the upload process.  If the image doesn't depict the act, and the description doesn't tell of it, we have no knowledge of it.  I know we can't exactly do that with an image of Hitler, but we can look at the image, along with the description, and, using common sense, see whether or not the image is, indeed, glorifying any aspect of the holocaust, or whether it is simply an image of Hitler.  Or an image containing the Swastika.  Or (insert your imagery of choice).

Jeni

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