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Cracked.com's anti-Cuba propaganda (www.cracked.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You're probably familiar with Cracked.com, the epic listicle site that was popular a decade ago and now mainly exists to promote paid content. In their heyday, they made many of the standard "lol look at how evil North Korea is" articles, but what stood out more to me was this article, 6 Ugly Facts Of Life In Communist Cuba, which wasw ritten with input from some gusanos and reads like US state department propaganda.

Most of the article is literally anecdotes from these people, which are the standard "Castro bad" crap, but one is notably ridiculous:

One day, my sister came home and exclaimed, 'Fidel is better than Jesus!' In school they had asked the kindergartners to close their eyes and pray to Jesus for ice cream. When they opened their eyes -- nothing. Then they closed their eyes again and prayed to Fidel for ice cream, and ... surprise! Ice cream cups on their desks!

matt Wow, such a plausible story! How could Fidel deceive the children like this?

The few sections that are actually sourced aren't any better:

It's hard to say how many people Castro's new regime gunned down (evil dictators being notoriously spotty record-keepers), but the butcher's bill was probably around 30,000.

This links to the 1995-ass website of some rando Italian-American writer called Piero Scaruffi, who cites The Black Book of Communism among others. A very credible source, I'm sure.

He got lucky: Thanks to Operation Pedro Pan, a joint venture between the Swiss embassy and the Catholic Church to spirit children to America, he secured permission to leave ... alone. "So I came to the U.S. without my parents and lived in a refugee camp in Florida."

No criticism of Operation Pedro Pan? At all? Alright!

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You left out the best part:

"In Cuba, we were upper-middle-class," Vivian said. "My grandfather was a bank vice president; my father worked for another bank and also wrote comedy sketches. We lived with extended family in a chic apartment. My sister and I had our own room; my brother had his own; we had a maid who lived in a small room behind the kitchen. She was a Spaniard and blind in one eye. I was a little scared of her."

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (1 children)

we had a maid

:sus:

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

who we basically kept in a fucking closet

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Also let's use a bit of logic and think about why the family maid who they treated like a slave may have been blind in one eye curious-sickle

Could definitely see it being the result of some abuse from the family

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Wow, just like Harry potter :soyjack-pointing:

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's always some variation of "I exploited human beings and the evil gommulists stopped me from doing that and now I'm sad" lol

lmao even

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Beyond parody.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Is it not?

This is so ridiculous and it being from Cracked makes me feel like we're eating the Onion.