Tyson's Mao Zedong Tattoo
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Yea, he's got one of Che. But Mao's a hero to nobody (except apparently Tyson). Mao's a cross between Kim Jong-Il and Stalin.
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tyson has spoke about this at length...maybe your too young to remember or google does not work..
"Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson visited Mao's mausoleum recently to pay his respects. "I felt really insignificant next to the remains of Chairman Mao," Iron Mike said of the experience. Tyson has an oversized tattoo of Mao's face on his arm, and keeps a collection of the infamous dictator's writings. He developed his love of the Great Helmsman while stewing in prison on a rape charge."
"Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson visited Mao's mausoleum recently to pay his respects. "I felt really insignificant next to the remains of Chairman Mao," Iron Mike said of the experience. Tyson has an oversized tattoo of Mao's face on his arm, and keeps a collection of the infamous dictator's writings. He developed his love of the Great Helmsman while stewing in prison on a rape charge."
Tyson is crazy. All you had to do was listen to him call the fs1 card the oher night or pay attention to him at all in the last 30 years.
People have some weird adoration towards him, which personally I find odd, but they then forget this simple fact. Tyson is fucking insane.
Can't stand the guy personally.
People have some weird adoration towards him, which personally I find odd, but they then forget this simple fact. Tyson is fucking insane.
Can't stand the guy personally.
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I think the adoration is there because he gave something to the world.. and then he became vulnerable and in need of the world giving something back...
and I think the fact that a lot of people did give back is what has helped Tyson become some what of a "dont do what I did" role model instead of a guy that died young and left a myth that some people would aspire to imitate.
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Mao was not a total douche. He did not value human life & saw them as statistics. However, He did some good things for China. Made it a nuclear power. Increased population. Equal rights for women.
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lol
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Yeah, my wife's grandmother had to flee to Hong Kong because her family got caught hiding their valuables in a lake. They made her father knell on broken glass and got beaten for the punishment.
Her father swam to Hong Kong with a friend, and his friend got eaten by a shark.
Cool guy.
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dude was a monster, but most leaders are when you dig into them. I worked for a Chinese couple and asked the wife her opinion, she said that americans don't think much of him but she thought he did some bad and some good. I also think the Asian idea of "face" has something to do with how the societies over there see themselves. Japan, for example, doesn't take too much responsibility for the atrocities that they have done. Bruce Lee said it best though (a man who's films were banned in China, he may have gave them ideas) "people are just plain stupid to let themselves be oppressed". It would have been interesting to see what kind of leader/example Bruce would have become had he lived. Mao let millions upon millions die, I think, even more people died because of his stupid ideas than Stalin killed. I doubt if he lost a minutes sleep over it either but he also did a lot of things to get China into the modern era. At the end of the day people will have to stop following jackasses and idiots, I don't get it, never have. As far as Mike having the tat? Who knows, maybe he was just trying to shove it into America's capitalistic face as some sort of rebellion, maybe he was bored, or high like he was when he got the facial tat. I wouldn't read too much into it.
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hold on, why she have to flee hong kong, you mean mainland china right?
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Great post.
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Details: What’s the story behind your Mao tattoo?
Mike Tyson: I read his book when I was in prison, man. Down in the hole. They thought they were punishing me in that little room—no toilet, no bed. I got myself put down there so I could read Chairman Mao and not have to deal with all that prison bullshit. The thing that stuck from his Quotations book: “No investigation, no right to speak.” If you aren’t going to look deep, just shut up.
http://www.iknowtheledge.com/sports/mike-tyson-gq-interview
Mike Tyson: I read his book when I was in prison, man. Down in the hole. They thought they were punishing me in that little room—no toilet, no bed. I got myself put down there so I could read Chairman Mao and not have to deal with all that prison bullshit. The thing that stuck from his Quotations book: “No investigation, no right to speak.” If you aren’t going to look deep, just shut up.
http://www.iknowtheledge.com/sports/mike-tyson-gq-interview
